He had looked at her with just such eyes as those that were fixed upon her now.

Their dumb pleading had been almost more than she could bear.
Involuntarily she laid her hand on his arm, music and dancers all forgotten in that moment of swift emotion.
"Phil," she whispered tremulously, "what is it?
What is it ?" He did not answer her by a single word.

He simply rose to his feet, as if by her action she had suggested it, and whirled her in among the dancers.
He kept her going to the very last chord, she too full of wonder and uncertainty to protest; and then he led her straight through the room to where Mrs.Raleigh stood, surrounded by the usual crowd of subalterns, muttered an excuse, and left her there..