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Percival Ford1 wondered why he had come. He did not dance. He did not care much for army people. Yet he knew them all—gliding2 and revolving3 there on the broad lanai of the Seaside, the officers in their fresh-starched uniforms of white, the civilians4 in white and black, and the women bare of shoulders and arms. After two years in Honolulu the Twentieth was departing to its new station in Alaska, and Percival Ford, as one of the big men of the Islands, could not help knowing the officers and their women.
But between knowing and liking5 was a vast gulf6. The army women frightened him just a little. They were in ways quite different from the women he liked best—the elderly women, the spinsters and the bespectacled maidens7, and the very serious women of all ages whom he met on church and library and kindergarten committees, who came meekly8 to him for contributions and advice. He ruled those women by virtue9 of his superior mentality10, his great wealth, and the high place he occupied in the commercial baronage of Hawaii. And he was not afraid of them in the least. Sex, with them, was not obtrusive11. Yes, that was it. There was in them something else, or more, than the assertive12 grossness of life. He was fastidious; he acknowledged that to himself; and these army women, with their bare shoulders and naked arms, their straight-looking eyes, their
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