It was a happy dance for both of them.
Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

The holidays belong to the early twenties and the 'teens, home from school and college.

These years possess the holidays for a little while, then possess them only in smiling, wistful memories of holly and twinkling lights and dance-music, and charming faces all aglow.

It is the liveliest time in life, the happiest of the irresponsible times in life.

Mothers echo its happiness--nothing is like a mother who has a son home from college, except another mother with a son home from college.