"You shall never know if you mustn't."
"I think you ought to dance once with Evelyn."
"I have danced with her, but only half a dance. She said she was tired—and then she finished it with Dawson Cooper."
"I wish they'd get to like each other."
"So do I. They're the right age. They've the right amount of money between them, and they like the same sort of things. But it rests with Evelyn. Dawson would fly to a dropped handkerchief as a pigeon flies home; but he's very shy and doesn't think much of himself."
It seemed a good omen when we entered the main hall and found them sitting out a dance together.
Dawson rose, but with some reluctance, it seemed to me.
"Isn't it about my turn, Lucy?" he said. "Will you?"
"Did Evelyn tell you you had to?"
He blushed like a schoolboy, and Evelyn burst out laughing.