There, men came not only to enjoy but to make others enjoy as well.

No stranger could have stood a moment alone without some one stepping to his side and drawing him into a friendly talk.

This mood soon changed.
Still, standing alone near the door waiting for Norman to appear, Keith found entertainment watching the groups, the splendidly dressed women, clustered here and there or moving about inspecting or speaking to each other.

One figure at the far end of the room attracted his eye again and again.

She was standing with her back partly toward him, but he knew that she was a pretty woman as well as a handsome one, though he saw her face only in profile, and she was too far off for him to see it very well.