"I--I don't think I could go that evening--" "What's the reason ?" his father broke in, harshly.

"You're not such a sheep that you're afraid to go into company with your sisters?
Or are you too good to go with them ?" "If it's to be anything like that night when them hussies come out and danced that way," said Mrs.Dryfoos, "I don't blame Coonrod for not wantun' to go.

I never saw the beat of it." Mela sent a yelling laugh across the table to her mother.

"Well, I wish Miss Vance could 'a' heard that! Why, mother, did you think it like the ballet ?" "Well, I didn't know, Mely, child," said the old woman.

"I didn't know what it was like.