Explain to her about it and soften the case as much as you can.

Frankly, Mr.Stevens, I'd be tremendously cut up to be on the outs with Miss Josephine." "There are shoals of young men who feel that way about it, Sam," said Mr.Stevens with large and commendable pride.

"However, I am glad that you have added yourself to the list," and he gazed after Sam with considerable approbation, as that young man hurried away to display his abjectness to the young lady in question.
Three times, on the arm of Princeman, she whirled past the open doorway where Sam stood, but somehow or other he found it impossible to catch her eye.

The dance ended when she was on the other side of the room, and immediately, with the last strains, the floor was in confusion.
Sam tried desperately to hurry across to where she was, but he lost her in the crowd.

He did not see her again until all of the Meadow Brook folk, including himself, were seated in the carryalls, at which time the Hollis Creek folk were at the edge of the porte-cochere and both parties were exchanging a gabbling pandemonium of good-bys.