"Oh, that's okay, Miss Keeler," said the man washing dishes with her.

You and Miss Keeler go on now and enjoy your evening.

"Never in the presence of a true lady, Miss Keeler."

"Miss Keeler," he said, as though about to pronounce some fact about the woman, but then his voice faded into silence.

"I'll see you here tomorrow afternoon then, Miss Keeler?"

Berkeley is still a part of Miss Keeler's life.

But he deployed his dancers, including Miss Keeler, like a general's field troops.

The dancing was never very hard in Berkeley musicals, Miss Keeler said.

"That's all he had in mind," Miss Keeler said.

"Where would you say we do belong, Miss Keeler?"