The young women whom she pointed out were all escorted by men who were scrupulously attired in evening dress.

She seemed to read his thoughts as she laughed at him.
"You stupid boy," she said.

"You don't suppose that I want to be like them, do you?
There are lots of things it's delightful to look on at, and that's all.

Isn't this fish good?
I love this place." Tavernake looked around him with an interest which he took no pains to conceal.

Certainly the little groups of people by whom they were surrounded on every side had the air of finding some zest in life which up to the present, at any rate, had escaped him.