Oh, how I wish--" Dinah broke off.
"What do you wish ?" said Scott.
She turned her face away to hide a blush.

"You must think me very silly and childish.

So I am, but I'm not generally so.

I think it's in the air here.

I was going to say, how I wished I could outshine her for just one night! Isn't that piggy of me?
But I am so tired of being always in the shade.