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'Is that the letter? asked Alice innocently. 'No, you silly, this is a Castle invitation. The Brennans and the girl in red looked up. 'Ah, is it for to-night or to-morrow? said the latter. 'For to-morrow. 'Now, I wonder if there will be one for me. Is it to dinner or to the dance? 'To dinner.
Manly across country: May's horse came to grief at a big wall, and broke several of her ribs. They say she has given up riding now she does nothing but paint. You remember how well she used to paint at school. 'And the Brennans?
But she could not do this, and must, therefore, resign herself to an aimless life of idleness, and be content in a few years to take a place amid the Miss Brennans, the Ladies Cullen, the Miss Duffys, the Honourable Miss Gores, those whom she saw sitting round the walls 'waiting to be asked, as did the women in the old Babylonian Temple.
'Oh! because everybody knows about the Marquis, and I couldn't bear their sneers; those Brennans and the Duffys are sure to be there. 'Bertha's in Dublin, said Mrs. Barton, in an intonation of voice a little too expressive of relief. 'Gladys is just as bad; and then there's that horrid Zoe. Oh! I couldn't bear it. 'It will look as if we were avoiding them; they will only talk the more.
The pale cheeks of Lord Rosshill's seven daughters waxed a hectic red; the Ladies Cullen grew more angular, and smiled and cawed more cruelly; Mrs. Barton, the Brennans, and Duffys cackled more warmly and continuously; and Bertha, the terror of the débutantes, beat the big drum more furiously than ever.
'I think you were making out a list of the Galway spinsters, said Alice, who could not help feeling a little amused, though she was sorry for Mrs. Gould. 'So we were, cried May; 'we were speaking of the Brennans. Do you know their friends the Duffys? There are five of them. That's a nice little covey of love-birds; I don't think they would fly away if they saw a sportsman coming into the field.
Two of Lord Rosshill's daughters had determined to try their luck again, and a third was undecided; the Ladies Cullen said that they had their school to attend to and could not leave Galway; poverty compelled the Brennans and Duffys to remain at home.
More visitors arrived; the Brennans, the Duffys, the five Honourable Miss Gores, and the company adjourned to the tennis ground. Mr. Lynch was anxious to have May for a partner, but she refused him somewhat pettishly, declaring at the same time that she had given up tennis, and would never touch a racquet again.
'Thanks, mamma, I will have a cup of tea; Cecilia and I went to see the Brennans. 'And are any of them going to be married yet? said Olive. 'I really don't know; I didn't ask them. 'Well, they ought to be doing something with themselves; they have been trying it on long enough. They have been going up to the Shelbourne for the last ten years.
Barton applied herself diligently to the task of organization. Having heard from Dublin of the hoax that was being played on their enemy, the Ladies Cullen consented to join the party, and they brought with them one of the Honourable Miss Gores. The Duffys and Brennans numbered their full strength, including even the famous Bertha, who was staying with her sisters on a visit.
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