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Two couples are drifting the self-same way / (Men of the world know well) / From the ballroom glare as the night grows grey / (Men of the world can tell). / Many are round them who know, and knew, / But men of the world are blind; / That couple in front has nought to do / With the couple that comes behind.
The woman starts on her partner's arm, / For a reason he could not tell -- / She trips and she laughs the Society laugh, / That men of the world know well. / If she laughs too suddenly, talks too fast, / We are deaf as well as blind -- / 'Twas only the ghosts of the girlish days / When she married the man behind.