This enabled Miss Chyne to give him the very next dance, of which the music was commencing.
"I feel rather out of all this," said Oscard, as they moved away together.

"You must excuse uncouthness." "I see no signs of it," laughed Millicent.

"You are behaving very nicely.

You cannot help being larger and stronger than--the others.

I should say it was an advantage and something to be proud of." "Oh, it is not that," replied Oscard; "it is a feeling of unkemptness and want of smartness among these men who look so clean and correct.
Shall we dance ?" He looked down at her, with an admiration which almost amounted to awe, as if afraid of entering the throng with such a dainty and wonderful charge upon his powers of steering.