"Don't pretend that you leave the men just to listen to me. You want Mrs. MacBirney to dance."
"She is always like that," declared De Castro to Alice, whom he found pleasing because her graciousness seemed to invite its like. "Just such bursts of divination. At times they are overwhelming. I remember how stunned I was when she cried--quite before I could get my breath: 'You want to marry me!'"
"Was she right?" laughed Alice, looking from one to the other.
"Absolutely."
"Is she right now?"
"Dolly is always right."
"Then I suppose I must dance."
"Not, of course, unless you want to."
Alice appealed to Dolly: "What did you do?"
"I said I wouldn't marry him."