`` Just say I looked pretty well and was having a good time . '' `` I 'll say the first with all my heart , but how about the other ? You do n't look as if you were having a good time . Are you ? '' And Laurie looked at her with an expression which made her answer in a whisper ... `` No , not just now . Do n't think I 'm horrid . I only wanted a little fun , but this sort does n't pay , I find , and I 'm getting tired of it . '' `` Here comes Ned Moffat . What does he want ? '' said Laurie , knitting his black brows as if he did not regard his young host in the light of a pleasant addition to the party . `` He put his name down for three dances , and I suppose he 's coming for them . What a bore ! '' said Meg , assuming a languid air which amused Laurie immensely . He did not speak to her again till suppertime , when he saw her drinking champagne with Ned and his friend Fisher , who were behaving ` like a pair of fools ' , as Laurie said to himself , for he felt a brotherly sort of right to watch over the Marches and fight their battles whenever a defender was needed . `` You 'll have a splitting headache tomorrow , if you drink much of that . I would n't , Meg , your mother does n't like it , you know , '' he whispered , leaning over her chair , as Ned turned to refill her glass and Fisher stooped to pick up her fan . `` I 'm not Meg tonight , I 'm ' a doll ' who does all sorts of crazy things . Tomorrow I shall put away my ` fuss and feathers ' and be desperately good again , '' she answered with an affected little laugh . `` Wish tomorrow was here , then , '' muttered Laurie , walking off , ill-pleased at the change he saw in her . Meg danced and flirted , chattered and giggled , as the other girls did .
After supper she undertook the German , and blundered through it , nearly upsetting her partner with her long skirt , and romping in a way that scandalized XXXXX , who looked on and meditated a lecture .
Fisher Laurie Meg Moffat Ned first heart right suppertime tonight