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`` No more than I am , I 'm sure , '' says Lucy Lee . `` I wonder if there are many others ? '' `` Only two or three million more , '' says I. `` That 's why the cabarets and movie shows are so popular . '' That starts us talking over what there was for folks to do in New York evenings , and while we can dope out quite a lot of different ways of passin ' the time between 8 p. m. and midnight , nearly every one is so expensive that the average young couple ca n't afford to tackle 'em more 'n once a week or so . The other evenings they sit at home in the flat . `` And yet , '' says young Mrs. Fairfield , `` hardly any of them but could find a congenial group of people if -- if they only knew where to look and how to get acquainted with each other . Why , right in this block I 've noticed ever so many who I 'm sure are rather nice .