Chapter 13: Wherein Lady Hermione "Acts for the Best"

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌⁠A dejected and disheveled super-clerk was called on to face a new crisis soon after he had apparently got rid of most of the persons concerned in the pandemonium which had raged for hours around that refuge of middle-class decorum and respectability, the Central Hotel in 27th Street.

As he was wont to explain in later days of blessed peacefulness:

"The queerest part of the whole business was that I