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Peter smiled. "I go out so little now, that I have turned selfish. I
don't go to entertain people. I go to be entertained. Tell me what you
have been doing?"
But as Peter spoke, there was a little stir, and Peter had to say
"excuse me." He crossed the room, and said, "I am to have the pleasure,
Mrs. Grinnell," and a moment later the two were walking towards the
dining-room. Miss De Voe gave her arm to Beekman calmly, but her eyes
followed Peter. They both could have made a better arrangement. Most
dinner guests can.
It was a large dinner, and so was served in the ball-room. The sixty
people gathered were divided into little groups, and seated at small
tables holding six or eight. Peter knew all but one at his table, to the
extent of having had previous meetings. They were all fashionables, and
the talk took the usual literary-artistic-musical turn customary with
that set. "Men, not principles" is the way society words the old cry, or
perhaps "personalities, not generalities" is a better form.


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