"Where have you been, Anne?" asked Grace, as Anne entered the tent where she and Miriam sat resting preparatory to beginning their dance, when enough people should gather outside to form a paying audience.
"Talking to Marian Barber and a young man who is trailing about with her."
"Did she introduce that man to you?" exclaimed Grace.
"Yes," replied Anne. "Did you meet him?"
"I did," was the answer. "Isn't he horrid?"
"That is precisely what I said," replied Anne. "There is something about his suave, silky manner that gives me the creeps."
"I hope Marian isn't seriously impressed with him," said Grace. "For there is something positively sinister about him."
Just then Hippy's voice was heard again above the crowd, and the three girls hurried to the opening in the tent.