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very confidential and his lips near her ear, but she did not notice.
"Oh, yes," she answered, "this is grand. How I'd like to be an actress and be up there!"
"Maybe you will some day."
"Oh, no, I'm not smart enough."
"We 'll see," he said wisely; "I know a thing or two."
Between the first and second acts a number of Thomas's friends strolled up to where he sat and began talking, and again Kitty's embarrassment took possession of her as they were introduced one by one. They treated her with a half-courteous familiarity that made her blush. Her mother was not pleased with the many acquaintances that her daughter was making, and would have interfered had not Mrs. Jones assured her that the men clustered about their host's seat were some of the "best people in town." Joe looked at them hungrily, but the man in front with his sister did not think it necessary to include
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