Rand. The habitual dude! Oh, of course, the first Harvard Assembly comes off to-night. If it was not for this rehearsal I would go in and do the butterfly myself. What would hire you to go there, Charlie?
Burl. Give me back that ten dollars and I will go.
Rand. I don't believe you would; but I'd give you the ten dollars if I could be there to see you.
Burl. Well, if it will please you to know it, I am going in.
Rand. What! You going to a party! What has happened?
Burl. [with dignity]. Nothing. It is a duty that I owe to myself and society. If a man never goes to balls he will never know how to behave in a ballroom.
Rand. [with derisive laughter]. That is pretty good from you. Steve has evidently been giving you a lecture. Come now, Ned, choke that off and tell me honestly what is up.
Burl. Nothing, I tell you. If a man shuns all polite society, he will become an unmitigated boor.
Rand. If you don't drop that second-hand stuff of Hudson's, and tell me who the girl is, by Jove, I'll tell every man in college about it, and it shall be a very amusing story before I get through with it, I promise you.
Burl. Well, you see—er—Steve's mother is going to be there and he wants me to meet her.