Les looked around the room for Em. His glance passed Lou Kohn, leading amateuse of the Teacup Theater (who was draped against a door à la Sarah Bernhardt), and rested on Em and Howard—alone in a window-seat.

That greedy kike would not give me any money when I was starving and needed food.

Child! Arline! wilt thou? darest thou heap A stain thine after life will beweep, On these hairs by thee and sorrow bleach'd On this hear dishonour never reach'd.

Infantile pyknocytosis is diagnosed only by careful analysis of peripheral blood smear, which reveals numerous small irregular and contracted red blood cells with hyper-dense spikes (the pyknocytes), that progressively increase in number to peak at approximately 3–6 weeks postnatal age, and then spontaneously disappear (at an average age of 4–6 months).