Here's a short story:

CHAPTER XVIII. THE SAUSAGE CHAPPIE 

The personality that wins cost Archie two dollars in cash and a lot of embarrassment when he asked for it at the store. To buy a treatise of that name would automatically seem to argue that you haven't a winning personality already, and Archie was at some pains to explain to the girl behind the counter that he wanted it for a friend. The girl seemed more interested in his English accent than in his explanation, and Archie was uncomfortably aware, as he receded, that she was practising it in an undertone for the benefit of her colleagues and fellow-workers. However, what is a little discomfort, if endured in friendship's name? 

He was proceeding up Broadway after leaving the store when he encountered Reggie van Tuyl, who was drifting along in somnambulistic fashion near Thirty-Ninth Street. 

"Hullo, Reggie old thing!" said Archie. 

"Hullo!" said Reggie, a man of few words. 

"I've just been buying a book for Bill Brewster," went on Archie. "It appears that old Bill--What's the matter?" 

He broke off his recital abruptly. A sort of spasm had passed across his companion's features. The hand holding Archie's arm had tightened convulsively. One would have said that Reginald had received a shock. 

"It's nothing," said Reggie. "I'm all right now. I caught sight of that fellow's clothes rather suddenly. They shook me a bit. I'm all right now," he said, bravely. 

Archie, following his friend's gaze, understood. Reggie van Tuyl was never at his strongest in the morning, and he had a sensitive eye for clothes. He had been known to resign from clubs because members exceeded the bounds in the matter of soft shirts with dinner-jackets. And the short, thick-set man who was standing just in front of them in attitude of restful immobility was certainly no dandy. His best friend could not have called him dapper. Take him for all in all and on the hoof, he might have been posing as a model for a sketch of What the Well-Dressed Man Should Not Wear.  (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: What was Archie buying?
Guess: a book

Question: For himself?
Guess: No

Question: For who then?
Guess: for Bill Brewster

Question: Why was he buying it for him?
Guess: unknown

Question: Did he talk to anyone at the store?
Guess: Yes

Question: Who?
Guess: the girl behind the counter

Question: Was she interested in him?
Guess: Yes

Question: Why?
Guess: she was interested in his English accent

Question: So what did he do after the store?
Guess: he encountered Reggie van Tuy

Question: Did they talk?
Guess: Yes

Question: What about?
Guess: About the book and about a man's clothing

Question: Were they friends?
Guess: Yes

Question: How did they know each other?
Guess: unknown

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: Was his buddy strong?

No