He had not made a single slip.

Nothing to groan over.

"I'm getting more experienced," he thought, with the vanity noticeable in even the most diffident of collegians, never dreaming that everything that he had said or done in the last few hours, had been made easy for him by a woman's tact.
The following week was practically a continuation of this first day.

In truth Peter was out of his element with the fashionables; Mr.Pierce did not choose to waste his power on him; and Mrs.Pierce, like the yielding, devoted wife she was, took her coloring from her husband.
Watts had intended to look after him, but Watts played well on the piano, and on the billiard table; he rowed well and rode well; he sang, he danced, he swam, he talked, he played all games, he read aloud capitally, and, what was more, was ready at any or all times for any or all things.

No man who can do half these had better intend seriously to do some duty in a house-party in July.