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"
Oh
,
yes
.
Let
's
go
.
"
Through
the
moving
couples
they
hurried
out
a
side-door
to
a
world
that
was
covered
thick
with
soft
,
cottony
,
silent
snow
.
The
air
was
filled
with
it
silently
eddying
down
.
The
ensuing
December
days
brought
to
Clyde
some
pleasing
and
yet
complicating
and
disturbing
developments
.
For
Sondra
Finchley
,
having
found
him
so
agreeable
an
admirer
of
hers
,
was
from
the
first
inclined
neither
to
forget
nor
neglect
him
.
But
,
occupying
the
rather
prominent
social
position
which
she
did
,
she
was
at
first
rather
dubious
as
to
how
to
proceed
.
For
Clyde
was
too
poor
and
decidedly
too
much
ignored
by
the
Griffiths
themselves
,
even
,
for
her
to
risk
any
marked
manifestation
of
interest
in
him
.
And
now
,
in
addition
to
the
primary
motivating
reason
for
all
this
--
her
desire
to
irritate
Gilbert
by
being
friends
with
his
cousin
--
there
was
another
.
She
liked
him
.
His
charm
and
his
reverence
for
her
and
her
station
flattered
and
intrigued
her
.
For
hers
was
a
temperament
which
required
adulation
in
about
the
measure
which
Clyde
provided
it
--
sincere
and
romantic
adulation
.
And
at
the
very
same
time
he
represented
physical
as
well
as
mental
attributes
which
were
agreeable
to
her
--
amorousness
without
the
courage
at
the
time
,
anyhow
,
to
annoy
her
too
much
;
reverence
which
yet
included
her
as
a
very
human
being
;
a
mental
and
physical
animation
which
quite
matched
and
companioned
her
own
.
Hence
it
was
decidedly
a
troublesome
thought
with
Sondra
how
she
was
to
proceed
with
Clyde
without
attracting
too
much
attention
and
unfavorable
comment
to
herself
--
a
thought
which
kept
her
sly
little
brain
going
at
nights
after
she
had
retired
.
However
,
those
who
had
met
him
at
the
Trumbulls
'
were
so
much
impressed
by
her
interest
in
him
that
evening
and
the
fact
that
he
had
proved
so
pleasing
and
affable
,
they
in
turn
,
the
girls
particularly
,
were
satisfied
that
he
was
eligible
enough
.
And
in
consequence
,
two
weeks
later
,
Clyde
,
searching
for
inexpensive
Christmas
presents
in
Stark
's
for
his
mother
,
father
,
sisters
,
brother
and
Roberta
,
and
encountering
Jill
Trumbull
doing
a
little
belated
shopping
herself
,
was
invited
by
her
to
attend
a
pre-Christmas
dance
that
was
to
be
given
the
next
night
by
Vanda
Steele
at
her
home
in
Gloversville
.
Jill
herself
was
going
with
Frank
Harriet
and
she
was
not
sure
but
that
Sondra
Finchley
would
be
there
.
Another
engagement
of
some
kind
appeared
to
be
in
the
way
,
but
still
she
was
intending
to
come
if
she
could
.
But
her
sister
Gertrude
would
be
glad
to
have
him
escort
her
--
a
very
polite
way
of
arranging
for
Gertrude
.
Besides
,
as
she
knew
,
if
Sondra
heard
that
Clyde
was
to
be
there
,
this
might
induce
her
to
desert
her
other
engagement
.
"
Tracy
will
be
glad
to
stop
for
you
in
time
,
"
she
went
on
,
"
or
--
"
she
hesitated
--
"
perhaps
you
'd
like
to
come
over
for
dinner
with
us
before
we
go
.
It
'll
be
just
the
family
,
but
we
'd
be
delighted
to
have
you
.
The
dancing
does
n't
begin
till
eleven
.
"
The
dance
was
for
Friday
night
,
and
on
that
night
Clyde
had
arranged
to
be
with
Roberta
because
on
the
following
day
she
was
leaving
for
a
three-day-over-Christmas
holiday
visit
to
her
parents
--
the
longest
stretch
of
time
thus
far
she
had
spent
away
from
him
.
And
because
,
apart
from
his
knowledge
she
had
arranged
to
present
him
with
a
new
fountain
pen
and
Eversharp
pencil
,
she
had
been
most
anxious
that
he
should
spend
this
last
evening
with
her
,
a
fact
which
she
had
impressed
upon
him
.
And
he
,
on
his
part
,
had
intended
to
make
use
of
this
last
evening
to
surprise
her
with
a
white-and-black
toilet
set
.
