"...Took to dance and had the joy put on him so that it like run over on everybody."
"We walked into the warming house an saw Carl. He gave us a curt nod then went back to staring out the window."
"When I stopped by the boards I looked out on the ice and there was something in the middle, lying on the ice. Old man Ekre leaned over and whispered its a flower. He put it out there about fifteen minutes ago."
"Carl ties Helen's skates. She gives him a curt nod, then leaves the warming house."
"It was like he was younger. His dance got stronger and more powerful, with twirls that seemed to sparkle with light and fire, and around like that while Helen stood at the other end of the rink. But it was different now. She wasn't standing to study, she was standing to wait, standing to see what he would do, could do for her as he moved around the ice."