An experience fell to my lot this night of the Ball that I had never known in all my fifty years, though it is known to every flapper and student-the intoxication of a general festivity, the mysterious merging of the personality in the mass, the mystic union of joy. I had often heard it spoken of. It was known, I knew, to every servant girl.
Berrogeita hamar urtez niretzat ezezagun zitzaidan gertakizun bat, nahiz edozein hasikinek eta ikaslek hura ezagutu, argitu zitzaidan dantza-gau horretan: