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ive me for last night." "There's nothing to forgive," she said. "Don't you know that though the man always takes the blame, it's always the girl's fault. A man can't get himself into trouble by just sitting still and looking pensive, but a girl can. From the moment Evelyn sat on that bench under the cedar she had only one thought. It was to see if she could make you kiss her." "No, no, Mrs. Fulton," I exclaimed. "It wasn't a bit like that. Honestly it wasn't." "In that case," said Mrs. Fulton, and her rosy face was at its very gayest, "Evelyn is a liar." "She told you that she tried to make me?" "Why, what else was there for her to be ashamed about?" "But you said she was also angry." "I suppose," said Lucy mischievously, "she was angry because I came out on the porch." IX In the days of the waltz and the twostep, Aiken did not dance, but immediately upon the introduction of the Turkey Trot and the Grizzly Bear, she made honorable amends. Wilcox built an oval ballroom with a platform for musicians, the big room at the Golf Club was found to have a capital floor, and the grip of bridge whist upon society was rudely loosened. Whatever may be said in derogation of the modern dances, they have rejuvenated the old and knocked a lot of nonsense out of the young. To my eye there is nothing more charming than a well-danced maxixe. To dance well a man must be an athlete and a musician; to be either is surely a worthy ambition. To dance well a girl must at the very least have grace and charm. So far as I am concerned, Lucy Fulton's dance was a great success, from the arrival of the first guest. I was the first guest. We had a whole dance to ourselves while Evelyn was busy with the telephone and before the second guest arrived. In all her life Lucy had never looked more animated or more lovely. The musicians caught her enthusiasm and the high spirit which flowed from her like an electric current, and at once these things appeared in their music. "I've only one sorrow," I said, "that I can't dance with you and watch you dance at the same time." "But if you had to choose one or the other?" "I shall choose often," I said, "but I'm afraid others will begin getting chosen. If I had my way there would be no other man but me and no other girl but you, and we'd dance till breakfast time." "Evelyn," said Lucy, her eyes full of mischief, "could chaperon us from a bench. She could sen
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