"I'm tired," replied Bess. "Besides we want to watch you."
At this Ed, who was Cora's partner, gave a wonderful swirl to show just how beautifully he and Cora could do the "Yale Rush."
"Cora is such a good dancer," Bess whispered to Jack, "but then Cora is good at most everything." There was no sarcasm in her tone.
"Oh yes, for a little sister she is all right," agreed the young man.
"She might be worse."
"Oh," exclaimed Bess suddenly. "I saw such a face at that window!"
"Plenty of faces around here to-night," observed Jack lightly.
"But that—oh! let us go away from here. I am nervous!"
"Certainly," and Jack took her arm. "Now if that were Belle," he proceeded calmly, and then paused.
Bess was actually trembling when they crossed to the stairway, but she soon recovered her composure.
She said nothing more about the face she had seen peering through the window and tried to forget it, as the dance went on.