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Ida was out when her prospective tutor called, and she was deeply impressed by the card she found under the door: "Mr. William Cullen Whalen," it was inscribed.
It was the custom of the gentlemen of her acquaintance to express their sense of good fellowship even upon the formal pasteboard. "Mr. Matt Dance," "Mr. Phil Mott," "Mr. Bill Jarvis," the legends read. Ida felt as if she were reciting a line from the Eastern creed as her lips formed again and again the suave and labial syllables on her visitor's card. She promptly determined to order cards for her husband on the morrow -- he was so remiss as to have none -- and they should be engraved, in small Roman letters: "Mr. Gregory Verrooy Compton."