h dance before he would leave her
to keep his next dance with Muriel.

"Oh, oh, oh, was there ever such a lark!" Sally exclaimed. "I have
danced with five different boys and not one of them guessed who I was,
and yet I know them all and have danced with them scores of times."

"Have you been dancing with Jerry all evening?" Phyllis asked Daphne,
as Janet regaled Sally with a description of the scene by the punch
bowl.

"What else can I do?" Daphne groaned. "He says he won't let me go
until he finds out who I am, and I simply won't tell him. I saw you
dancing with Chuck. How do you like him?"

"Oh, ever so much," Phyllis replied, and then she laughed harder than
ever.

Daphne demanded an explanation, and when Phyllis gave it, together with
her plan, she heartily agreed.

"Then it's settled that we all meet at the bench just as the lights go
out before the gong rings to unmask," Sally said, as they started back
downstairs. The rest nodded, and at the door of the ballroom they
separated, each to her waiting partner, rather to a waiting partner.

Sally joined Howard and John in the library, to continue Janet's
dancing lessons, and Janet hurried to the punch bowl to find a jolly
King Cole who had Sally's promise to sit out the dance with him and let
him guess who she was.

Chuck, after leaving Muriel rather unceremoniously, rushed to the bench
beneath the palms, and Daphne greeted him with a smile of welcome.
Phyllis was claimed at once on her appearance by the persistent Jerry,
and they danced off, as Jerry firmly believed, taking up the threads of
their conversation exactly where he and Daphne had left off.

The room was so large that it was surprisingly easy to keep out of one
another's way, and not one of the four boys realized that there were
more than two girls wearing the same kind of costume.

The dance ended, and the girls lost themselves in the crowd, to appear
in person for their next dance, the boys none the wiser. Only John,
with his donkey's head very much awry, noticed a change as he watched
Howard Garth painstakingly teaching Sally the rest of the steps to the
fox trot. Janet had not thought of telling Sally that she was being
very nice to John; she hardly realized it herself; so Sally ignored him
as girls always ignored John, and he noticed it. It took Janet several
minutes to make him forget his grievance when she came back at the
ninth dance to have one more lesson.

The tenth dance h