One does not call it domineering, but it is so. This special
creature is charged unfairly with more than his or her single share of
force. Betty Vanderpoel thought this out as this "other one" came to
her. He did not use the ballroom formula when he spoke to her. He said
in rather a low voice:
"Will you dance with me?"
"Yes," she answered.
Lord Dunholm and his wife agreed afterwards that so noticeable a pair
had never before danced together in their ballroom. Certainly no pair
had ever been watched with quite the same interested curiosity. Some
onlookers thought it singular that they should dance together at all,
some pleased themselves by reflecting on the fact that no other two
could have represented with such picturesqueness the opposite poles
of fate and circumstance. No one attempted to deny that they were an
extraordinarily striking-looking couple, and that one's eyes followed
them in spite of one's self.
"Taken together they produce an effect that is somehow rather amazing,"
old Lady Alanby commented. "He is a magnificently built man, you know,
and she is a magnificently built girl. Everybody should look like that.
My impression would be that Adam and Eve did, but for the fact that
neither of them had any particular character.
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