Then there was again silence awhile.
"Was it thus he took you round your waist?"
"No; thus."
"Well, then;—it was thus...."
"Eli?"
"Well?"
"Do you think there will ever be anybody come in that way to me?"
"Of course, there will!"
"Nonsense! Ah, Eli? If he took me round the waist?" She hid her face.
Then they laughed again; and there was much whispering and tittering.