It was my first grown-up party.

I was only a fool of a girl, merely ignorant, unfit to be trusted with a liberty I'd never before had....

And I took one glass of champagne and it--you know what it did....

And I was bewildered and frightened, and I told you; and--you perhaps remember how my confidence in my old play-fellow was requited.
Do you ?" Reckless impulse urged her on.

Heart and pulses were beating very fast with a persistent desire to hurt him.