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 wanted me to go to-morrow morning and the other in the afternoon."

"Listen!" Nelson said. "You didn't promise you would, did you?"

Surprised, she looked up at his flushed and troubled face. "Well, they all seem so nice and cordial"

"All?" he gasped. "All! D'you mean you're going to do what all of 'em asked you to? After this afternoon?"

"But you don't want me to snub people, do you, Nelson? Just when they're anxious to be friendly and make me feel at home in a strange place?"

"Listen!" he said. "You mean you told all of 'em you would?"

"But what else could I do, Nelson?"

Nelson looked desperate. "You did, then! After this afternoon! You said we care for the same things and then you go ahead and get yourself all dated up like this!"

"But Nelson"

"It's terrible," he said. "It's a terrible thing."

"But we do care for the same things, Nelson, don't you believe it?"

"Well, then, if we do, what makes you go and date yourself up for all this"