"That will give me a chance to wear this muffler, after all."

"So it will."

"Well, be a little more cordial. You expect to look at your friends, don'tyou?"

"0f course. That's what it really is for. Have I got to exert myself," he added,"to be cordial with _you_?"

"What's the neighborhood?"

"0h, this one, substantially. The next street from where I am now."

"Housekeeper?"

"I think I'll have a Jap alone, at first."

"Dinners?"

"A few little try-outs, perhaps."