Rumor has it that a "dark-eyed fortune teller" has appeared on the streets of New York City. The man is described as "like some saint," but no one seems able to figure out who he is. The fortune teller is right on time, the narrator tells us, and now he can bring his company back to "bow bow profitability" . He asks the fortune teller to tell him what his fortune will be, and the teller tells him that it will be "luck in my family" , and that animals never let anyone down. The narrator then tells us that he feels "cleaned" of the corruption of "the material world" and that his children depend on him. He wonders if the "love fortune" is a sign of love, and wonders if he should say something about the "one you love" being a bad man. He says that he has already given up his "promise never to be world material" and has been diverted by the "lures of love" ever again.