Nine A.M. Friday morning
You 've put it off long enough . '' The old man sighed . Fortunately he did not ask to see the Mail . If he had , a quarter way down the column of personal notices he would have been enraged -- or perhaps only puzzled -- to read : CARLTON RESTAURANT : Nine A.M. Friday morning . Will the young woman who preferred grapefruit to strawberries permit the young man who had two plates of the latter to say he will not rest until he discovers some mutual friend , that they may meet and laugh over this column together ? Lucky for the young man who liked strawberries that his nerve had failed him and he was not present at the Carlton that morning ! He would have been quite overcome to see the stern uncompromising look on the beautiful face of a lady at her grapefruit .