Come with me, will you ?" "Oh, no," I said, half frightened, shrinking back, "I am not going to dance--ever." "Perhaps that is as well," he said in a low tone, meeting my eye for an instant, and telling me by that sudden brilliant gleam from his, that then he would be spared the pain of ever seeing me dancing with another.
"But let me teach you something," he said after a moment.

"Let me teach you German--will you ?" He sank down in a chair by the table, and leaning forward, repeated his question eagerly.
"Oh, yes, I should like it so much--if--." "If--if what?
If it could be arranged without frightening and embarrassing you, you mean ?" "Yes." "I wonder if you are not more afraid of being frightened and embarrassed than of any other earthly trial.

There are worse things that come to us, Miss d'Estree.

But I will arrange about the German, and you need have no terror.

How will I arrange?
No matter--when Mrs.Hollenbeck asks you to join a class in German, you will join it, will you not ?" "Oh, yes." "You promise ?" "Oh, anything." "Anything?
take care.