This Dorothy Parker act rubbed him the other way. in particular after what had occurred. “Would you love to head someplace and dance? ” he stated. the woman seemed inquiringly at her better half. “What approximately it? ” she requested. “I didn’t invite Leo,” Jim stated, attempting to make his voice sound gentle, realizing that he used to be behaving foolishly, that Leo used to be a gossip, and that Nancy could most likely listen of this. “Oh, yet I invite him,” acknowledged the lady. “I don’t dance,” Leo stated. “You younger bourgeois move alongside. ” in any case, Leo went with them. the 2 males acquired the woman gardenias on a highway nook, and there has been loads of joking festival as to whose gardenia was once the largest and such a lot ideal. They went to a French position at the West part that had a small orchestra and used to be now not too capitalistic. Jim and the woman danced, and Leo sat on the desk like a German papa and made Marxist witticisms approximately them. the woman didn't dance so good as Nancy, yet she carried herself as though she have been the belle of the night. whilst it used to be time to move domestic, there has been extra joking approximately who can be dropped first, however it was once eventually agreed that Leo’s position was once evidently the 1st cease. once the cab door closed on Leo’s stout determine, Jim kissed the woman back. “I love you,” he stated. “It was once higher to convey Leo along,” she murmured as though in resolution. “I’m a professional conspirator. i do know. ” Jim felt a mild relax run via him. “I don’t like conspiracies,” he stated. “Oh, neither do I,” she stated fast. “But occasionally they’re important. ” Her tone, he concept, used to be accurately that of a military officer who professes to hate battle. “This time,” he acknowledged, “they won’t be worthwhile, Margaret. ” She seemed up at him. As they handed a highway mild, he proposal he may perhaps see her lips quiver just a little. “It’s funny,” she acknowledged, “whenever a guy starts off to inform you he’s going to wreck with you, he makes use of your first identify, whether he’s by no means used it prior to. ” “I wasn’t …” stated Jim. “Oh yes,” she stated. “Yes, you have been. good, I’m going to be great. I’m going that will help you out. I’m going to assert all of the right issues. ” She took a breath and commenced to recite. “There isn't any destiny during this, it can’t lead at any place, it is going to in simple terms harm us either, it wouldn’t be any strong except it have been severe and less than the situations it can’t be severe; if we as soon as enjoyed one another, we would now not be ready to cease, so we had larger cease now. Or i'll say,” her voice dropped, “if we as soon as enjoyed one another, we'd be able to cease, so let’s cease prior to we discover that out. ” The taxi drew up in entrance of her condo, which used to be on a road with a old fashioned identify, within the Village. “Good night,” she stated. “Please don’t see me to the door. ” She jumped out of the taxi with one of those exaggerated lightness, simply as she had performed on the inn. She ran up the stairs and opened the outer door. “Where to? ” acknowledged the driving force. Jim might nonetheless see her within the entryway, looking out in her handbag for the major. “Go on throughout 7th Avenue,” he stated. the subsequent afternoon he took her domestic from paintings at the subway. They went as much as her house, the place they made love.