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Updated: June 19, 2025
Yesterday was the festival of the Holy Countenance, that solemn anniversary that brings prosperity to our dear city!" And the cavaliere cast up his mild blue eyes, and crossed himself upon the breast. "I was most of the day in the cathedral. Such a service! Better music than last year. In the evening I had promised to arrange the cotillon at Countess Orsetti's ball.
Dinner is to be at eight, in a large pavilion, where they have had a beautiful parquet floor laid down, and then when the tables are cleared away, we shall begin the cotillon. As I have never danced in one before, I hope I sha'n't make an idiot of myself. This morning I very nearly had another row with Godmamma you will never guess what for, Mamma!
"They always do things extraordinarily well." No doubt it was the prospect of the cotillon that had brought such a throng together. The night was stifling; the stairs and the supper-room were filled with a struggling mob; and George spent an hour of purgatory wondering at the gaieties of his class. He had barely more than two glimpses of Letty after they had fought their way into the room.
Then it came out about the dance that Derwent and his daughter were to give the following night. "Frank and me have been arranging the cotillon," said Cassie, and then she turned pink to her ears at having called him by his first name before all those people. "I mean Mr. Rignold," she added, amid everyone's laughter and her own desperate confusion.
Claire ventured to say. "That is out of the question," replied the marchioness pitilessly. "The embassy would have informed us. You may be sure he is in perfect health, and that he led the cotillon all last winter in the ball-rooms of St. Petersburg."
They treated every lad in the battery like a lieutenant, and the "ladies' man" like a king. You should have seen him waltz them or in quadrille or cotillon swing, balance, and change them, their eyes brightening and feet quickening whenever the tune became "Ole mahs' love' wine, ole mis' love' silk, De piggies, dey loves buttehmilk."
He took her back to the drawing-room and left her there, drank several glasses of champagne and watched her during supper. She allowed two young members of the Diplomatic Corps to wait on her, but made fun of them all the time and treated them as if they were footmen. As soon as the cotillon began, he went to her and offered her a bouquet. "Do you accept me?" he asked. "Yes," she replied.
He always thought of her as he thought of himself as a perfectly free agent, dealing with him and their common life on equal terms. The house to which they were going belonged to very wealthy people, and Letty was looking forward feverishly to the cotillon. "They say, at the last dance they gave, the cotillon gifts cost eight hundred pounds," she said gleefully, to George.
The cotillon itself was almost over; the maypole figure adding a flutter of bright ribbons to the array of flags and bunting, evening dresses, and uniforms. Twice, in the earlier figures, she had chosen him; but this time, the chance issue of pairing by colours gave her to Desmond. Roy saw a curious look pass between them. Then Lance put his arm round her, and they danced without a break.
She looked as though she were ready to. And they say it's easier every time." "C'est le second mari qui coute," paraphrased Cuthbert, tossing his cigar over the balustrade. The strains of a waltz floated out of the windows, the groups at the tables broke up, and the cotillon began.
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