And I do not think I shall be great friends with your Lana Helmer--even when I am fine and brave in gown and powder to face her on equal terms----" "Lois, what in the world are you babbling ?" "Let me babble, Euan.

Never have I been so happy, so content, so excited yet so confident....

Listen; do you dread tomorrow ?" "I ?" "Yes--that I might not do you honour before your fashionable friends ?...

And I say to you, have no fear.

If my gowns are truly what I think they are, I shall conduct without a tremour--particularly if your Lana be there, and that careless, rakish friend of yours, Lieutenant Boyd." "Do you remember what you are to say to Boyd if he seems in any wise to think he has met you elsewhere ?" "I can avoid a lie and deal with him," she said with calm contempt.
"But there is not a chance he'd know me in my powder." There was a silence.