Now come on!" She threw back her head and laughed at him.
"It's beginning so well," murmured Sally to Ethel, as they went in to dinner.

"Steady, my child." "Oh, I'm all right!" was the reply, and Ethel smiled excitedly.

The chorus of exclamations that had greeted Joe and herself had been so warm and gay and real.

There had been no time for awkwardness.

In a moment after their entrance, the hubbub of talk and laughter had gone right on as though nothing had happened.