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Leslie rushed in breathless about six o'clock Saturday evening, and declared she was too et dressed at once, and put so She rattled on about the different social functions she was expected to attend that evening until Julia Cloud was in hopeless confusion, and could only stand and listen, and try to find the things that Leslie in her hurry had overlooked Then Allison arrived, and wanted sooing and what he was going to do, and at the end of an hour and a half Julia Cloud had a very indefinite idea of anything She had a swift mental vision of church and Sabbath and Christian Endeavor all slipping slowly out of their calculation, and the WORLD in large letters taking the forefront of their vision

"You are going to a dance!" she said in a white, stricken way she had when an anxiety first bewildered her "To two dances! O ht of that!"

"Sure I dance!" said Leslie gayly, drawing up the delicate silk stocking over her sliht to see me And Allison can dance, too We'll show you so, Cloudy? Why, Cloudy! You couldn't ? Not really! But where would we be? Everybody dances! Why, there wouldn't be anything else to do when young people went out Oh, do you suppose Cherry would press out this skirt a little bit? It's got horribly mussed in that drawer"

Julia Cloud had dropped into a chair with an all-gone feeling and a lightness in the top of her head She felt as if the world, the flesh, and the devil had suddenly dropped down upon the house and were carrying off her children bodily, and she was powerless to prevent it She could not keep the pain of it out of her eyes; yet she did not knohat to say in this es that had always see her own opinions seemed adequate to the occasion Leslie turned suddenly, and saw her stricken face

"What's the ? Aren't you well? Don't you like o to a dance? Why, Cloudy! Do you really object?"

"I have no right to object, I suppose, dear," she said, trying to speak cal; it's not nice It's too--too intiirl!"