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Dancing with anyone else will seem tame - horrid now - he dances divinely.  There has been something else going on lately which I must tell you about as it has been amusing and promises to be still more so.  The little Englishman as I called him, whom it is not worth going into details about has made himself thought about in spite of his insignificance.  It all began up at the skating Club.  I used to see him there every day, and once he lunched here, & he had called, and he asked me a very long time ago for the Gerry Cotillion. But until
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about five days ago matters went no farther.  Now however he is in love with one, or thinks he is, and in a thousand ways he shows it.  They are little things that cannot be put down.  I thought I would enjoy myself the other day so on Tuesday at the Dance when after Mo had asked if he could come the next afternoon at quarter past five, Mr Harrison likewise asked if he could come, I said yes quarter past five. I knew how angry they both would be and wondered if they would either suspect my little trick.