Then, there was the weekly dance in the great ball-room and many little dances and dinners, and Broussard always contrived to be with Anita the best part of the evening.

He was always willing to sing and Anita was always ready to play the violin obligatos for him.

Broussard developed wonderful knowledge of song birds and entirely abandoned game chickens, and was astonishingly regular in his attendance at the chapel, which induced Anita to think him a model of Christian piety.

If Broussard had been a conceited man he would have seen that Anita's heart was his long before he asked for it; but being a modest fellow and thinking Anita was but a little lower than the angels, Broussard paid her the delicate and tender court which women love so well.
The regimen of love and leisure did wonders for Broussard.

His thin face filled up, his color returned, he was soon able to dance and ride and shoot with the best of his comrades.