"We are married. Let go, boys."
"I'll sue you for alimony then," piped the girl
Finally, they released her, and the next minute I saw them walking
across the lawn in the direction of the dancing-pavilion
The man who had talked scientific philanthropy spat in disgust
"Shame!" he said. "Decent young people wouldn't behave like that
in Russia, would they?"
"Indeed they wouldn't," his interlocutor assented, vehemently.
"People over there haven't yet forgotten what decency is."
"Oh, well, it was only a joke, said a woman
"A nice joke, that!" retorted the man who had dwelt on scientific
charity
"What would you have? Would you want American-born young
people to be a lot of greenhorns? This is not Russia. They are
Americans and they are young, so they want to have some fun.
They are just as respectable as the boys and the girls in the old
country. Only there is some life to them. That's all."
Young people were moving along the flagged walk or crossing the
lawn from various directions, all converging toward the pavilion.
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