the hall the scatter the sheep this room then turn off all the lights and the wolves crawl in from the hall and in the darkness they try to get the shoes away from the � who are permitted to do anything except bite and use the wolves the captured shoes out into the hall no one excused come on shoes off every one looked at every one else and waited for every one else to begin kicked off her silver slippers and ignored the universal glance at her arches the embarrassed but loyal her high black shoes well you re a terror to old folks you re like the i used to go horseback riding with back in the ain t much accustomed to attending parties but here goes with a and a gallant jerk snatched off his shoes the others and followed when the sheep had been up in the darkness the wolves crept into the living room halting thrown out of their habit of by the strangeness of advancing through toward a waiting foe a mysterious foe expanded and grew more menacing the wolves peered to make out they touched gliding arms which did not seem to be attached to a body they quivered with a rapture of fear reality had vanished a suddenly rose then s high and s astonished quit you re me mrs galloped backward on stiff hands and knees into the safety of the lighted moaning i declare i was so upset in my life but the propriety was shaken out of her and she continued to in my life as she saw the living room door opened by invisible hands and shoes through it as she heard main street from the darkness beyond the door a a a resolute here s a lot of shoes come on you wolves owl y would would you when abruptly turned on the lights in the living room half of the company were sitting back against the walls where they had remained t the engagement but in the middle of the floor was with harry � their torn off their hair in their eyes and the mr was retreating from and with laughter s discreet brown down his back young s net had lost two buttons and betrayed more of her delicious plump shoulder than was regarded as pure in whether by shock disgust joy of combat or physical activity all the party were freed from their years of social decorum george twisted his beard mrs insisted i did too sam � i got a shoe � i never knew i could fight so terrible was certain that she was a great she had needle and thread ready she permitted them to restore the divine decency of buttons the grinning brought down stairs a pile of soft thick sheets of paper with designs of blossoms in and crimson and gray and patterns of purple birds flying among sea green trees in the of nowhere these announced are real chinese i got them from an shop in you are to put them on over your clothes and please forget that you are and turn into and and � and isn t it and anything else you can think of while they were rustling the paper she disappeared ten minutes after she gazed down from the stairs upon ruddy yankee heads above oriental robes and cried to them the princess her court i as they looked up she caught their suspense of admiration they saw an airy figure in trousers and coat of green edged with gold a high gold collar under a proud chin black hair pierced with pins a languid fan in an out main street stretched hand eyes uplifted to a vision of towers when she dropped her pose and smiled down she discovered with domestic pride � and gray staring for a second she saw nothing in all the pink and brown mass of their faces save the hunger of the two men she shook off the spell and ran down we re going to have a real chinese concert messrs and are the rest of us sing and play the the were with paper the drums were and the sewing table editor of the led the with a ruler and a totally sense of the music was a of tom heard at fortune telling tents or at the state fair but the whole company and puffed and in a sing song and looked before they were quite tired of the concert led them in a dancing procession to the dining room to blue of with nuts and preserved in none of them save that city harry had heard of any chinese dish except chop with agreeable doubt they ventured through the shoots into the golden of the and did a not very humorous chinese dance with and there was and contentment relaxed and found that she was tired she had carried them on her thin shoulders she could not keep it up she longed for her father that artist at creating hysterical parties she thought of smoking a to shock them and dismissed the thought before it was quite formed she wondered whether they could for five minutes be to talk about something besides the winter top of s ford and what al had said about his mother in law she sighed oh let em alone ive done enough she crossed her legs and above her of she caught s still smile and thought well of herself for having thrown a rose light on the pallid lawyer repented the supposition that any male save her husband existed jumped up to find and whisper happy my lord no it didn t cost much so main street best party this town ever saw only don t cross your legs in that costume shows your knees too plain she was vexed she resented his she returned to and talked of chinese � not that she knew 