Skippy smiled craftily to himself.
"Well, perhaps I'll have a try."
"That's what you've said every time," said Miss Dolly, shrugging her shoulders.
Skippy bided his opportunity until the third two-step had begun and the claimants for the favorite's hand were congregating.
"I'm sitting this out with Jack," said Dolly, with a sigh.
"Say, a fossil who can't dance oughtn't to have any rights around here, nohow," said Happy Mather. "You're only a clothes horse anyway, Skippy."
Dolly burst out laughing at this, which pained Skippy exceedingly.
"Oh, any chump can dance if he wants to."
"You think so?"
"Sure. Easiest thing in the world if I wanted to."