"I should think he'd fall on his head!"
"Look! See! She's starting off again! Doesn't she do it well?"
"Who is she, anyway?"
Nan had completed her figure, and was waiting at the edge of the circle for John to finish his and to come and join her. She stood well back, so that she might not interfere with the others, and thus it was that she was waked from her trance with an abrupt shock by the sound of two whispering voices, seeming almost at her ear, their murmur carried so in the chill, crystal air.
"Didn't I tell you she was a bold thing?"
"Sh! She'll hear you! She's right in front of us—only those men between."
"No she won't, either. We're too far away. Didn't I tell you Lu's and Ruth's friendship was for one night only? I knew well enough why Lu asked her to come. Any one could see through that. She wants to learn how to skate, and this was as ready a way as any to be taught, and she jumps at the chance."
"Oh, do hush! She'll hear!"
"Don't care if she does. I don't know what your opinion is, but mine is that it's positively brazen of her to do such things before a crowd like this. Dragging John Gardiner into it, too! It's a disgrace!"
"Sh, please! There he comes!"