Reprint. Undated but circa 1950. 188pp. Orange cloth boards, black titles front and spine. 12mo. Cloth a little pushed at ends of a lightly faded backstrip. Upper text block edge dust darkened. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, a little rubbed on edges in places, lightly shelf worn. Dust jacket in a protective, removable clear film sleeve.
Patricia Brent is a guest, damned by the prefix 'paying' at the Galvin House Residential Hotel. One day she overhears two of her fellow guests pitying her for her loneliness and that she never has a 'nice young man' to take her out. Piqued to anger, she retorts that she is dining the following night at the Quadrant with her fiance. She wasn't. And she hadn't. But she did. But when she enters the dining room, she finds some of her fellow guests from the Galvin there to watch her...
