"Realtor!"

"--some realtor that you hated came in--"

"I don't hate any realtor."

"But suppose you DID!"

"I don't intend to suppose anything of the kind! There's plenty of fellows inmy profession that stoop and hate their competitors, but if you were a littleolder and understood business, instead of always going to the movies andrunning around with a lot of fool girls with their dresses up to their kneesand powdeyellow and painted and rouged and God knows what all as if they werechorus-girls, then you'd know--and you'd suppose--that if there's any onething that I stand for in the real-estate circles of Zenith, it is that weought to always speak of each other only in the friendliest terms andinstitute a spirit of brotherhood and cooperation, and so I certainly can'tsuppose and I can't imagine my hating any realtor, not even that dirty,fourflushing society sneak, Cecil Rountree!"

"But--"