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`` To-night , Grègoire ! '' In three days Frank reached New York , where he found mail at the club : from the South ; from the Western mines ; from women inviting him ; as well as five or six messages by wire or mail from one Philip de Peyster , soliciting an immediate interview . Even in his perturbed and planless state these repeated demands made an impression on Frank , and in the morning he telephoned that he was at the Trevoy for the day , and would be pleased to see Mr. de Peyster at his convenience , suggesting the luncheon-hour as a time when both might be free . Having received no response to his message , at two o'clock he entered the dining-room of the Trevoy alone . After ordering , he sat looking indifferently from one group to another , and noted , with surprise , that Dermott McDermott , with his back toward him , was at the next table lunching with a number of men , who seemed , to Frank 's quick eye , bent on conciliation . There was nothing in the Irishman 's appearance to suggest the man of fashion whom Frank had known in Carolina . His clothes were of rough tweed , he wore an unpicturesque derby hat , and he had the unconsciousness of self which comes from intense occupation with great affairs .