"Running away?" she said.
"It's all I'm good for."
"Look at me."
"I thought you hadn't any dances free."
"I haven't. This is Willard's."
"Go back to Willard.... What did you come here for?"
"I don't know."
"Don't you?" He looked up now, with magic in his eyes and voice, the strange magic that came and went, and when it left him Judith could never believe it would come again. But it was here. With a little sigh she slipped off the desk and into the arms he held out for her, closing her eyes.
"I didn't want to dance with you," she whispered; "not with all those lights, and before those people."
"No, dear."