A Social Meteor — page 94: what you’re looking at

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84 A SOCIAL METEOR. very innocent evening’s amusement. You sur- prise me sometimes with your Puritanical notions. What’s the good of borrowing trouble in that way? ‘There isn’t the least harm in what I sug- gested, but you go on as if I were talking of run- ning away from home or something equally des- perate. We’re only young once, and should try to make the most of our time while we can enjoy it. Why,” she went on, working herself into a passion, “if any of these old idiots should happen to see me at the theater with a man whose grand- mother’s pedigree they didn’t happen to know, and make remarks, do you suppose it would affect me? Not at all, I assure you, as long as I knew I was doing nothing wrong. I should snap my fingers at them.” “But Charley ?” suggested Georgie, quietly. “Bah! if he found it out, and saw fit to quarrel with me about such a little thing, I would snap my fingers at him, too,” cried Ray. “What if he should be seriously offended ?” persisted Georgie. “And put me out of the house? Well, the world is large, and I should consider myself well rid of such a fool,” answered Ray. “But why do you always suppose disagreeable things and make Gomichooks.eom ‘