I tried to reason myself out of my pettishness, to atone to John, poor
fellow! But my eyes followed Ned and Milly among the graceful, flying
figures, and my feet tapped the floor impatiently until, presently, the
music stopped and they came to us. Then Ned's parted lips said something,
and then--as the music recommenced, I was in his arms and, almost without
my own knowledge or volition, was moving around the room.
Moving, not dancing--floating in a rosy light, away and away from them
all, into endless space, my hand in his, his breath on my cheek; always to
go on, I felt; on and on, to the dim borderland between this earth and
Heaven.
Presently his eyes told me that something was happening. The dancers had
been too busily engaged to pay much heed to my first brief adventure, but
in the intermission of the music I had been noticed, and now I saw that
there was an open space about us. Here and there a couple stood as they
had risen from their seats, while others, who had begun to dance, had come
to a pause. Slender girls in clouds of gauze and fat matrons panting in
satins were gazing in our direction.
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