Section 37Yes, this was Mount Olympus, and here were the gods: the femaleones in a state of divine semi-nudity, the male ones mostly clad inblack coats with pleated shirt-fronts puffing out. Every time oneof them moved up to the desk Peter would watch and wonder, was thisMr. Lackman? He might have been able to pick out a millionaire froman ordinary crowd; but here every male god was got up for theprecise purpose of looking like a millionaire, so Peter’s jobwas an impossible one.
In front of himacross the lobby floor there arose a ten-footpillar to a far-distant roof. This pillar was of pale,green-streaked marble, and Peter’s eyes followed it to thetop, where it exploded in a snow-white cloud-burst, full offascination. There were four cornucopias, one at each corner, andout of each cornuco
