I shall have ze pleazure during ze evening." Gusher blushed and
withdrew to another part of the ball room, where he captured Mrs.
Topman, who was delighted at having such a partner for the first dance.
Mrs. Topman was indeed popular as a dancing lady, and nothing pleased
her better than to show her skill in the art in company with Gusher,
whom all the pretty young girls said moved so nice on his feet.
The music now struck up and fell softly and sweetly on the ear, and the
dancing began, and each figure seemed floating in the very poetry of
motion, until the bewitching scene carried the mind away captive in its
gyrations.
Mattie had never seen Mr. Romer, nor indeed heard of him before that
night. She knew nothing of the relations existing between him and
Gusher. She was equally a stranger to Mr. Gusher's antecedents. Her mind
had, however, for some time been engaged trying to solve the mysterious
agency that had brought him into business relations with her father.
Being a girl of fixed character and good common sense, it was only
natural that she should entertain an instinctive dislike for Gusher, in
whom she saw a nature, if not really bad, at least frivolous and
artificial.
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