He apparently deemed it necessary to pay her a good deal of attention, and Molly was strongly determined to keep him at a distance--a matter, by the way, that had its difficulties in face of young Cleveland's romping lack of ceremony.
"Yes, you may have the skirt," she said with a generosity not wholly spontaneous, as he waited expectantly for a reply to his request.
"Ah, good!" he said effusively.

"That is a great weight off my mind.

And may I have Number Ten on your programme ?" "Are you going to dance ?" asked Mrs.Langdale, with a half-suppressed laugh.
He turned upon her, grinning openly.
"No.

Fisher says I mustn't.

I'm going to sit out, dear Mrs.Langdale--a modest wall-flower for once.