"
"Is she clever?"
"Is she? That's the trouble. She won't have anything to do with a man
unless he's clever. Look at her to-night! She got her big fish right
off, and she's driven away every man who's come near her ever since.
She's the kind of a girl that, if she decides on anything, she does it."
"Who's her big fish?" said Leonore, as if she had not noticed.
"That big fellow, who is so awfully exclusive--Stirling. He doesn't
think any people good enough for him but the Pells, and Miss De Voe, and
the Ogdens. What they can see in him I can't imagine. I sat opposite him
once at dinner, this spring, at the William Pells, and he only said
three things in the whole meal. And he was sitting next that clever Miss
Winthrop."
After the fifth dance, Dorothy came up to Leonore. "It's going
beautifully," she said; "do you see how Peter has turned his back to the
room? And I heard a man say that Miss Biddle was freezing to every man
who tried to interrupt them. I must arrange some affairs this week so
that they shall have chances to see each other.
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