I don't see why, when you dance like this, you always make such a fuss about coming to parties." He sounded his brief laugh, a jeering bark out of one side of the mouth, and swung her miraculously through a closing space between two other couples.

"You know a lot about what goes on, don't you?
You prob'ly think there's no other place to dance in this town except these frozen-face joints." "'Frozen face ?'" she echoed, laughing.

"Why, everybody's having a splendid time.

Look at them." "Oh, they holler loud enough," he said.

"They do it to make each other think they're havin' a good time.