I looked out to make sure." His simple pleasure touched Corinna like the artless joy of a child.

It was impossible to resist his magnetism, she thought, as she looked up into his sanguine face, for what was it, after all, except an unaffected enjoyment of little things, an unconquerable belief in life?
"I stopped to ask Patty about a dance," she explained.

"I must go on immediately." He glanced at the girl a little anxiously.

"Is she going to a party with you?
I am glad." In spite of his buoyant manner, there was an abstracted look in his eyes, as if his mind were working at a distance while he talked.

After the first minute or two Patty observed this and it helped her to make her decision.