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Some quiet evenings are more productive of matter for reflection and afterthought than many more exciting and apparently eventful ones. How little there is to talk over a ball! One quadrille is like another and one partner very much like another. Most ballrooms are hot, most partners are unsuitable. But how often a quiet evening with a few friends in a country house is the beginning of some great matter--the mustard seed whence springs the shadowing tree, the bend of the stream which changes its whole course!
So it was with several of the members of Mrs. Dodson's quiet, little dinner.