She was going to a party at the Sinclairs'-- one to which Susan was not invited.

"Aren't you going to Sinclairs' ?" said she.
"I was.

But I thought I'd rather call.

Perhaps I'll go there later." He was coming to call on Susan! All the way down Main Street to the Wright place Ruth fought against her mood of angry and depressed silence, tried to make the best of her chance to impress Sam.

But Sam was absent and humiliatingly near to curt.
He halted at his father's gate.