In Alcala

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​​​​​​⁠In Alcala, as in most of New York's apartment houses, the schedule of prices is like a badly rolled cigarette—thick in the middle and thin at both ends. The rooms half-way up are expensive; some of them almost as expensive as if Fashion, instead of being gone for ever, were still lingering. The top rooms are cheap, the ground-floor rooms cheaper still.

Cheapest of all was the hall-bedroom. Its furn