Daly's story, published in 1947, conveys the breathless romanticism of the first-person narrator, a teenage girl. She wants to convey sophistication but instead communicates naiveté in her talk of what she has read in magazines: she uses imagery as she tells us, for instance, that "coloured ankle socks" are "forbidden" with high heel shoes.

But for all the knowledge she has gleaned, the imagery of the story suggests she is still an innocent small town girl. For example, she has to darn her skating socks before she can go to the rink. Her dog trots with her, its "hot breath" making a childlike "little balloon on the end of her nose." The narrator also likens the skating ring to a merry-go-round.

The first person narrator also uses conventionalized romance imagery: the stars wink like "flirting eyes," and she wonders how she sees them when it is snowing, wondering, with a cliched image, if "the stars were in my eyes." When she meets her unnamed male, she describes him not in terms of how he looks, but uses a generic term, stating that he is a "big shot" at school. This suggests he is a fantasy to her more than a real person. She is more specific with her imagery when she describes how he "tied the wet skate strings [of her skates] in a knot and put them over his shoulder" before walking her home.

The story is structured as a typical girl-meets-boy romance but doesn't have the typical Cinderella happy ending. The two skate together on a Thursday, and by the following Tuesday the boy hasn't called. She then realizes he never will. She does mature a bit in realizing she won't get her fairytale finale. The story thus ends on a point of disillusion that undercuts the romance structure.