Gigolo by Edna Ferber Chapter 3 Page 22

herself in an incompetent, frenzied sort of way. With Giddy soaring high and her foreign stocks and bonds falling low she might well be excused for the panic that shook her from the time she opened her eyes in the morning until she tardily closed them at night.

“Let’s go home, Giddy darling,” like a scared child.

“Where’s that?”

“Don’t be cruel. America’s the only safe place now.”

“Too darned safe!” This was 1915.

By 1917 she was actually in need of money. But Giddy did not know much about this because Giddy had, roughly speaking, got his. He had the habit of soaring up into the sunset and sitting around in a large