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Flippin had not baked the cakes to-day, nor was she in the gallery, for her daughter, Mary, was among the guests on the ballroom floor, and her mother's own good sense had kept her at home. "I shall look after Miss MacVeigh," she had said. "I want Truxton to bring you over and show you in your pretty new dress." When they came, Madge, who was sitting up, insisted that she, too, must see Mary.
Nowadays, a ball in a private house is rare, for hotels, clubs, and first class caterers furnish charming ballrooms for rental to exclusive patrons. But whether in her own house or in a hired ballroom, the hostess is for the time "at home"; and the general conduct of the ball is the same in both cases.
Upon reaching his apartments he had pounced upon his wife's desk, seized everything valuable that it contained, jewels, certificates, title-deeds of the house at Asnieres; then, standing in the doorway, he had shouted into the ballroom: "Madame Risler!" She had run quickly to him, and that brief scene had in no wise disturbed the guests, then at the height of the evening's enjoyment.
It is only a well a poor imitation of something else. "With no notion of criticising my host, I must say, that in my opinion those who introduce these innovations" he included the ballroom with a slight movement of her folded fan "are robbing the West of its greatest charm.
Wedding salad is set forth in its proper chapter, but not the turkey hash that was to some minds the best of all the good eating. It was served for breakfast there was always a crowd of kinfolk and faraway friends to stay all night sleeping on pallets all over the floors, even those of parlor or ballroom, after they were deserted.
The various panels had quaint little scenes of the same Chinese flavor. Of course, in such an apartment as a ballroom there would be nothing to break into the decorative plan of the painted walls, and the unbroken polished floor serves only to throw the panels into their proper prominence.
They were the only tenants of the room, which was small, cedar-panelled and lighted by a girandole of sparkling crystal. Through the closed door came faintly from the distant ballroom the strains of the dance music. With perhaps the single exception of the Principal Souza, the British policy had no more bitter opponent in Portugal than the Marquis of Minas.
"The Cardinal shall pay the fiddlers," added Gondi. The young men applauded with a laugh; and all reascended to the ballroom as lightly as they would have gone to the battlefield. It was on the day following the assembly that had taken place in the house of Marion de Lorme.
What was there in such speeches as these to draw any two nearer and nearer to each other as they walked side by side to fill the morning air with an intensity of life, to seem to cause the world to drop away and become as nothing? As they had been isolated during their waltz in the crowded ballroom at Dunholm Castle, so they were isolated now.
When a move was made to the ballroom, Miss Nippett whispered to Mavis: "If Mr Poulter wins the great cotillion prize competition 'e's goin' in for, I 'ope to stand 'Turpsichor' a clean, and a new coat of paint."
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