"Well, then, you dance beautifully, but you don't
kick out your legs enough at the back."

At this perfectly unlooked-for and astounding remark
Jenny turned into a peony. Quite misunderstanding
her furious blush, he said, —

" There, now I You are angry I I said you would be



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vexed 1 I'm always putting my foot into it What
I meant was that I admired Lady Florence Fos-
ter's way of dancing. Look at her. Here she comeSy
now.'*

Jenny looked, and saw a huge blonde girl with a
pronounced attack of '^ Grecian bend" (which was d la
mode then), who certainly was making lively play with
her heels, her body bent forward at a most extraordi-
nary angle. When she could utter anything in answer
to his penitent apologies for having " vexed" her, she
said that she was '^ not angry, exactly, but — ^"

<< What I You don't like her dancing ?" he asked.
