... café, and Mr. Sessions astounded them by the urbanity with which he hurriedcaptains and waiters and 'bus-boys, and ordered lobster and coffee, and pretended that he was going to bewicked and ... his pitiful, home-cleaned, black sack-suit, and home-shined, expansive, blackboots and ready-made tie, while he talked easily, and was merely rude about dances and clothes and theweather.In ... side-street dance-halls, Bronx girls whowent to the bartenders' ball, and the dinner and grand ball of the Clamchowder Twenty, they laughed andtalked and danced all three at once with an ease...