"We ought never to have given up waxed mustaches,"said Abe. "Nevertheless Dick isn't the ONLY man with repose--"
"Oh, yes, I am."
"--but he may be the only sober man with repose."
A well-dressed American had come in with two women who swooped and fluttered unselfconsciously around a table. Suddenly, he perceived that he was being watched--whereupon his hand rose spasmodically and arranged a phantom bulge in his necktie. In another unseated party a man endlessly patted his shaven cheek with his palm, and his companion mechanically raised and lowered the stub of a cold cigar. The luckier ones fingered eyeglasses and facial hair, the unequipped stroked blank mouths,or even pulled desperately at the lobes of their ears.