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Her dinner partner presently asked her for the `` second '' and the supper dance , and Susan , hoping that she concealed indecent rapture , gladly consented . By just so much was she relieved of the evening 's awful responsibility . She did not particularly admire this nice , fat young man , but to be saved from visible unpopularity , she would gladly have danced with the waiter . It was nearer eleven than ten o'clock when they sauntered through various wide hallways to the palm-decorated flight of stairs that led down to the ballroom . Susan gave one dismayed glance at the brilliant sweep of floor as they descended . `` They 're dancing ! '' she ejaculated , -- late , and a stranger , what chance had she !