Midnight
`` I 'll go home if you want me to , '' the talented author of `` The Purple Slipper '' offered , with a small snap in her eyes , mingled with the accustomed veneration of Mr. Vandeford , her producer . `` I do n't want to be in anybody 's way . I thought I had to come and spend all my money . I want to see the Metropolitan and the Aquarium and Brooklyn Bridge and Trinity Church , ... and ... a Midnight Frolic , because Mamie Lou Whitson , at home , is expecting me to go to one even if Miss Elvira said I ought not to . Can I see just one Frolic before I go home ? '' `` If you go home now the whole ` Purple Slipper ' will go into cold storage until you come back , '' Mr. Vandeford growled at her , and the effort it took not to hold on to her with bodily fingers was a great strain . `` I told you the usual situation because I felt that you were clever enough to make the best of it and help the play a lot .