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The Revelations
"Of course — let's go !" I cried, knowing how she'd love it. "And let's not go as ourselves ; in such a crowd as that nobody will recognize you celebrities !"
"Marvelous — I'm going to be Pamela Hicks ! Yes, I am !" Claudia insisted, facing our storm of protest. "Being named Hicks will be just like eating bread and butter after having nothing but cream puffs."
"All right — I shall turn my back on 'Daniel' forever and call myself Putnam Wellington — if you scorn distinction, I'm going to have it," declared Danny. I've forgotten what names Hugh and I chose, but they were so unlike our own that Hugh wrote them down on his cuff so we'd be able to remember them.
It was a gorgeous dance, and Claudia looked absolutely marvelous. Her gown was a very simple little thing of white net, caught up with garlands of French flowers, and her red hair and violet eyes had never been more beautiful, I felt sure. I was so proud of her when we entered the ballroom and every one turned and stared.
And she was as happy as any young girl at her first party. She simply glowed. As for Danny, he raved his head off about her, nor could any one have blamed him.
"She's the loveliest thing I've ever known!" he told me once when we were daijcing together. "She's so beautiful, and has such character, and such a really wonderful disposition "
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"And what about Carol Burnet, Danny?" I asked. "Was I right when I told you that you weren't really in love with her, and that when the hurt was over you'd find that you hadn't cared so awfully much after all?"
"You're always right, Sally," he answered vv^ith the boyish grin that is so endearing. "But I was crazy about Claudia from the minute I saw her coaxing Junior out of that lily pond. She was so wonderful about it — she certainly loves children and knows a lot about them, doesn't she?"
I smiled a bit to myself at that, for Claudia has said to me shortly after that little episode :
"I'm sorry that your nice Danny saw me trying the vampire tactics of the screen on Junior ; he'll be like the other men I've met, I'm afraid, and think that I'm a professional charmer off the screen as well as on."
"He'll never recognize the vamping part — try it on him," I'd advised, but she'd laughed and answered, "I'd never be able to ; I like him too well, and, anyway, I'm too bashful in real life to do the things that succeed on the screen. Anyway, they have to succeed there because the scenario arranges that they shall; I'm certain that half the wiles that go in the movies never would get across with a regular man !" And I thought of that, of course, when Danny began talking about her.
That party was such a success that Claudia and Danny went crazy over the idea of repeating it. They went to another one the next night, and came home per