Quotation from: The Efficiency Expert

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

CHAPTER III.

THE LIZARD.

That night Jimmy attended a show, and treated himself to a lonely dinner
afterward. He should have liked very much to have looked up some of his
friends. A telephone call would have brought invitations to dinner and a
pleasant evening with convivial companions, but he had mapped his course
and he was determined to stick to it to the end.