I shan't go in, shan't I?
I'd like to see you or anybody else keep me out! This place is free, and so am I.Jim hasn't showed up, and I'm going to wait for him here.
I've got a date." She was abreast of Felix now, a girl of twenty, maudlin drunk, her hat awry, her hair in a frowse, her dress open at the neck.
She steadied herself for a moment, and became conscious of Felix, who had risen, horror-stricken, from his seat.
"Jim ain't showed up.

He is all right, and don't you forget it.

Them guys wanted to give me the grand bounce, but I got a date, see ?" She reeled on up the aisle until she reached the steps of the altar.
There she stood, swaying before the lights, repeating her cry: "They dassen't touch me.

I got a date, I tell you!" Father Cruse, without turning, continued his ministrations with the same composure he would have maintained at a baptism had its solemnity been disturbed by the cry of a child.

By this time, several women, appalled by the sacrilege, left their seats and moved toward her, begging, then commanding, her to stop talking, all fearing to add to the noise yet not daring to let it continue, until they gently but firmly pushed her through the door at the end of the church and so on into the street.
Felix had followed every movement of the girl with an intensity that almost paralyzed his senses.