All I need is a
little practice. Next time I come up I'm going to try balancing the
whole thing on my hand and carrying it shoulder-high."
"Please practice that some time when you're all alone in your own
house."
"I'll remember. And please remember I'm going to bring up your
supper--and my own. May we have it in the place where we were after the
dance?"
"Yes, with six others who are waiting there already. That will be
lovely, thank you. I'll be back by the time you have everything up."
"Of all the hard creatures to corner," thought Richard, going on upward
with his tray. "Anyhow, I can have the satisfaction of waiting on her,
which is better than nothing."
He found it so. The six people in the gable corner proved to be of the
younger boys and girls, and, though they were all eyes and ears for
himself and Roberta, he had a sufficient sense of being paired off with
the person he wanted to keep him contented. They ate and drank merrily
enough, and the food upon his plate seemed to Richard the best he had
ever tasted at an affair of the kind.
The evening was gone before he knew it. He could secure no more dances
with Roberta, but he had one with Ruth, during which he made up for his
silence with her sister by exchanging every comment possible during
their exhilarating occupation.
Pages:
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136