"Or DID you wear it ?" There was a long pause.

Mrs.Radford readjusted the bacon in the Dutch oven.

His heart beat fast, for fear he had offended her.
"Me!" she exclaimed at last.

"No, I didn't! And when I was in service, I knew as soon as one of the maids came out in bare shoulders what sort SHE was, going to her sixpenny hop!" "Were you too good to go to a sixpenny hop ?" he said.
Clara sat with bowed head.

His eyes were dark and glittering.