“What’s the fundraiser for? At school?” “I don’t have a faintest idea,” he says. “Endangered beetles in the Amazon. Orphaned pelicans in Florida. Something or other that St. Regis has decided is a worthwhile cause.” That makes me laugh. I hadn’t expected a critique from him. “Yeah, that sounds like something a private school would deem worthy.” “Yes,” he says. “Needs to be palatable and easy to explain to the kids, you know? God forbid it’s an actual social cause here in the city.”
