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It 's lots of fun , too , in its own way , do n't you think ? Another kind of a wilderness . I wonder if you would come down -- if I asked you to ? I 'll say it very nicely and properly , like this : ` Miss Gloria Gaynor requests the pleasure of Mr. Mark King 's presence at her little birthday-party , on the evening of August twelfth , at eight o'clock . ' Just the four of us , Mark ; mamma and papa , you and `` August twelfth , '' said King . `` I 'll go . ''