'I suppose you take a great interest in it?'
'Quite the contrary. I take very little.'
'Still, you seem to enjoy parties.'
'Why, yes. When I go, the best thing I can do is to enjoy them.'
'But you like to go, don't you?'
'I can scarcely say I do—sometimes, perhaps.'
'A person who waltzes as well as you do ought to like parties, I am sure.'
'I feel very much flattered to have you praise my waltzing.'
There was another pause. It was again broken by Miss Thorne.
'Do you know I think you so droll?'