midday
The morning after that very much enjoyed dinner dance , with which the Governor Faulkner complimented my Uncle , the General Robert , through me , I was standing in front of the mirror in my room without my coat or my collar , endeavoring to reduce the wave in my black hair to the sleekness of that of my beloved Buzz , which had a difficulty because of one lock over my temple whose waywardness I had for the last few years trained to fall upon my cheek for purposes of coquetry and which would persist in trying still to fulfill that unworthy function . And right in the center of my punishment of that lovelock with the stiff brush without a handle , which was twins with another that had come with the gentleman 's traveling bag which I had purchased in New York of the nice fat gentleman in the store of clothing for men , into my room came that Buzz without any ceremony save a rap upon my door which did not allow sufficient time for any response from me . I blushed with alarm at the thought that his entrance might have come at a much earlier stage of my toilet and I made a resolve to lock the door tight in future , at the same time turning to greet him with a fine and great composure . `` Say , Bobby , are you in for side-stepping the chiefs at eleven-thirty and going with me to take a nice bunch of calicoes out to the Country Club for a little midday sandwich dance ? You can eat a thin ham and fox trot at the same time . Sue and Belle and Kate Keith all want to get on to that long slide you 've brought over direct from Paree . It stuck in their systems last evening and they want more .