In the Onyx Lobby

I Such a Feud! Well, by the Great Catamaran! I think it's the most footle business I ever heard of! A regulation, clinker built, angle iron, sunk hinge family feud, carried on by two women! Women! conducting a feud! They might as well conduct a bakery! I daresay they could do even that! Women have been known to bake with a fair degree of success! Of course, of course, but baking and conducting a bakery are not identical propositions. Women are all right, in their place, which, by the way, is not necessarily in the home, but a family feud, of all things, calls for masculine management and skill. Sir Herbert Binney stood by the massive mantelpiece in the ornate living room of the Prall apartment. The Campanile Apartment House came into being with the century, and though its type was now superseded by the plain, flat stucco of the newer buildings, yet it haughtily flaunted its elaborate façade and its deeply embrasured windows with the pride of an elder day.