The iron and the shoe hang out after work because they're the only tokens in their workplace; they talk quietly, in modest tones, about the way that other peers are amazed at their articulateness. The top hat hears that people say he's a political hire even though he's very qualified to run a hotel. It is very lonely on Illinois Avenue but the sportscar has saved enough to buy a house. On the Short Line, the thimble daydreams.