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MARY LANE'S PARTY was a very dull one. She was one of ten young people, and young people can be very boring.
Three of the girls had a giggling secret, and throughout the meal made esoteric references to some happening which none but they understood. The young men were vapid and vacuous, after their kind. She was glad to get away on the excuse of a matinee.