And then she saw Russell coming across the room toward her, with Walter beside him.

She jumped up gaily.
"Oh, thank you!" she cried.

"I know this naughty boy must have been terribly hard to find.

Mildred'll NEVER forgive me! I've put you to so much----" "Not at all," he said, amiably, and went away, leaving the brother and sister together.
"Walter, let's dance just once more," Alice said, touching his arm placatively.

"I thought--well, perhaps we might go home then." But Walter's expression was that of a person upon whom an outrage has just been perpetrated.