Shadows Over Taralon by Jacquelyn Webb

Author:Jacquelyn Webb [Webb, Jacquelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Astraea Press
Published: 2012-01-18T02:37:25+00:00

Chapter Nine

Jenny wriggled her feet out of her high-heeled slippers and hid her stockinged feet under the table. The dinner dance had been fun, but it was getting late and she decided she was tired.

The two blond Sullivan boys and the freckled redhead called Terry had claimed acquaintance with flattering enthusiasm. She spent a lot of the evening going from table to table and being introduced, and dancing with everyone.

Tony and Marise were at a table with a crowd of older people, most of whom spent the evening drinking heavily. Tony had danced with her earlier in the evening and then been ousted by the Sullivan boys. Marise shrugged a disdainful shoulder as she danced past and Tony stayed the rest of the evening among his particular friends.

At last Jenny refused all offers to dance and returned to sit down. Most of the revelers were packing up. The dance floor had a curiously forlorn look to it, with the trampled streamers and shredded pieces of colored balloons. She was alone. Bill Williams stood on the floor trying to disentangle himself from an elderly gentleman who had buttonholed him. Wayne leaned over a table on the other side of the room talking to friends.

He seemed to be very well liked and had spent a lot of the evening socializing with everyone. When the dancing started, he danced twice with the nice Sullivan girls, and several times with Marise. Jenny wondered if he was going to offer to dance with her, but first Tony had whisked her on to the dance floor and then the other boys had crowded Tony out and monopolized her.

Tony started dancing with his sister. Jenny watched with an unwilling admiration. They had the floor almost to themselves and danced with the perfect coordination of professional dancers or born athletes. Marise’s white chiffon swirled around her lithe body as she moved. Tonight her shining hair was twisted back into a soft Grecian knot that revealed the perfect regularity of her features and softened her face. She looked very regal and self-assured, and definitely the most striking woman in the room.

The music stopped, and there was a spontaneous round of applause. Marise gave her flashing smile. Tony moved over to ask Bill Williams something. He nodded agreement. Marise returned to her friends, and Tony headed across to Jenny.

“I offered to take you back to the hotel, Jenny,” he explained. “That prosy old bore will have Bill trapped until the first race tomorrow.”

“What about Marise?” Jenny asked.

She tried not to look across to where Wayne laughed broadly at something the older of the Sullivan girls said to him on the other side of the room.

“Our table is staying at the same hotel and she isn’t ready to leave,” Tony said with a shrug.

Jenny slid her feet back into her slippers and picked up her black velvet wrap. She smiled at all her new friends as Tony took her arm and walked her outside to where the rakish red sports car was parked.

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