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CHAPTER ONE
APPREHENSIONS
 I look back through my experience of eighteen years, I
realize that many of my apprehensions have been
foolish, because so many of the things that I dreaded turned
out all right. Almost every one of the parties I thought would
be stiff—and I am not very happy at the sort!—proved to be
the kind where every one grew lively. I remember one that
Elaine McDonald had, particularly, because I had said to
mother, “I don’t want to go. They’ll all wear gloves and it
will be miserable!” But I did go, and they had a Paul Jones
that was so rough that they broke a chair and knocked over a
table, and it was fine! While, on the other hand, there have
been parties that I thought would be nice and informal, and
we just went and sat in one place and talked, and at that sort I
smile until my face feels as if it were covered with shellac,
because I don’t feel like smiling at all. And this all shows—
or it should, because I am trying to make it—that I never
should take my apprehensions seriously.