PIERRETTE REMEMBERS AN ENGAGEMENT
Pierrette has gone—but it was not
Exactly that she lied;
She said she had to catch a train;
"I have a date," she cried.
To keep a sudden rendezvous
It came into her mind
As quite the quickest way to flee
From parties of this kind;
She went most softly and most soon,
But still she made a stir,
For, going, she took all the men
To town along with her.
Edgar Guest
(Who has an air of absolute belief in the True, the Optimistic, and the Checkbook. He seems yet a little ill at ease among the others, and to be looking about restlessly for Ella Wheeler Wilcox.)