talked all the way down to s to her he wanted to reply oh go to the devil but he never quite to that reasonable comment he was the existence of the whole bunch he had heard speak of darling and � she s so clever � her but they had never been real to him he had pictured as living in a rose tinted waiting for him free of all the of a ts when they returned he had to endure the patronage of the young they were as friendly as miss was they called him old and shouted come on now sport shake a leg boys in coats boys as young as ted and as as chorus men but powerful to dance and to mind the and smoke and he tried to be one of them he cried good work i but his voice apparently enjoyed the companionship of the dancing she to their bland and casually kissed them at the end of each dance hated her for the moment he saw her as middle aged he studied the wrinkles in the softness of her throat the slack beneath her chin the muscles of her youth were loose and drooping between dances she sat in the largest chair waving her her admirers to come and talk to her she thinks she s a blooming queen i growled she to miss isn t my little sweet rats it s a plain old maid and dog oh god i wish i was home i wonder if i can t make a now his vision grew however as he applied himself to s raw but vigorous he blended with the bunch he began to rejoice that and the most nearly intelligent of the youths seemed to like him and it was important to win over the surly older man who proved to be a clerk named the conversation of the bunch was full of to le whom did not know apparently they thou t very comfortably of themselves they were the bunch wise and beautiful and amusing they were and accustomed to all the luxuries of dance halls and and in a c superiority to people who were slow or they oh did i tell you what that of a said when i came in late yesterday oh it was per ly oh but wasn t t d say he was what did say to him think of the nerve of bob staff trying to get us to come to his house say the nerve of him can you beat it for nerve some nerve i call it did you notice how was dancing wasn t she the limit was to be heard agreeing with the miss that persons who let a night go by without dancing to music were and poor fish and he roared you bet when mrs don t you love to sit on the floor it s so he began to think extremely well of the bunch when he mentioned his friends sir lord william washington and he was proud of their interest he got so thoroughly into the spirit that he didn t much mind seeing drooping against the shoulder of the youngest and of the young men and he himself desired to hold s hand and dropped it only because looked angry when he went home at two he was fully a member of the bunch and all the tho he was bound by the exceedingly the exceedingly of their life of pleasure and freedom he had to go to their parties he was involved in the agitation when everybody to everybody else that she hadn t meant what she d said when she d said that and anyway why was going around saying she d said it never was a family on learning one another s movements than were the bunch all of them knew or indignantly desired to know all the had been every minute of the week found himself explaining to c just what he had been doing that he should not have joined them ten o clock and for having gone to dinner with a bi acquaintance every member of the bunch was expected to to every other member at least once a week why haven t yon called me up was asked not only by and but presently by new ancient friends and and if for a moment he had seen as withering s he lost that impression at s dance mrs had a large house and a small husband to her party came all of the bunch perhaps thirty five of them when they were completely under the name of old was now a of the bunch since each month it changed half its and he who recall the days of a fortnight ago before mrs the food had gone to and had got sore at was a venerable leader and able to condescend to new and and at s did not have to work at being hostess she was dignified and sure a clear fine figure in the black frock he had always loved and in the spaces of that ugly house was able to sit quietly with her he repented of his first at her feet and happily drove her home next day he bought a violent yellow tie to make himself young for her he knew a little sadly that he could not make himself beautiful he beheld himself as heavy of but he danced he dressed he to be as young as she was as young as she seemed to be iv as all whether to a religion love or find as by magic that though hitherto these have not seemed to exist now the whole world is filled with their fury so once he was converted to discovered agreeable for it everywhere he had a new view of his sporting neighbor sam the were respectable people industrious people prosperous people whose ideal of happiness 