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 much for dancing. Guessed he wasn't built for it. No, he wasn't too stout, but he didn't have time to go about much socially. First nights, you know, newspaper articles, plays...guessed he'd do Dorothy in one of his pieces. Not exactly, of course. Something like...sorry the dance was over...see her later maybe...ring her up sometime? be delighted to...so nice to have met her...

Molly, the Thursday Night Girl, according to Tommy, was the kind of girl the young-men-you-see-with-beauties marry.

"If there were marriage statistics of the right sort available," wrote Tommy, "it would develop that one man out of every one and three-quarters marries the girl with whom he keeps company of Thursday nights. Saturday night's girl is fair of face and an investigation of the budgets of our young lovers would show that Saturday night's girl was responsible for the impecuniousness of youth. But Saturday night's girl is a Wilhelmine of the Wisp-"

Tommy was very proud of that.

"-who vanishes suddenly, leaving only memories of beauty and nothing more. She is the most beautiful girl you know; she is the girl you want to be seen with; she is the girl you never marry. She is the gold-tipped cigarette of young man's existence. He ends up with a collection of ashes-and the waiter literally carries away the gold tip.

"Monday night's girl is a relative whom one must entertain lest one's relations become strained. Tuesday's girl and Wednesday's girl are Platonic friends - so Platonic that one can discuss Plato with them. But Thursday-

"Molly is the Thursday night girl. She is not so