CHAPTER 4
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LUCIA:
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IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, Charley and I were related to or acquainted with almost everybody else in New York. Some considered it a privilege that we had been introduced to, or could greet by first name, everybody worth knowing in New York. Charley (not amongst those who placed pedigree above character) was usually of the opinion that we knew at least everybody by reputation and that that was the way it ought to stay for everybody’s peace and sanity.
It was no surprise then that scores of friends, relations, acquaintances and suitors descended upon my house and, most notably, called on Aunt Merry at Montrose (for Charley herself could never be found in the Park Avenue residence) when news got out about Charlotte Masterson being back in New York, and the
