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The day was hot it was Midsummer Day and William, having stumbled on a convenient mound, fell asleep. And he dreamt a curious dream. He thought he saw a beautiful maiden walking towards him. She was tall, and clothed in dark draperies, and her hair was bound with a coronal of scarlet flowers, her face was pale and lustrous, and he could not see her eyes because they were veiled.
"I don't mind, if he doesn't," said Patty, carelessly. "What a darling room this is!" "Yes; this is one of my pet rooms. I always give it to my favourite guests." "I don't wonder," and Patty looked round admiringly at the dainty draperies and pretty appointments of the chamber.
It was grand in effect, to see these figures, incumbered in their heavy draperies, guiding their wheelbarrows through the great arches of Caracalla's Baths or along the Via Sacra.
Libbie eyed her scornfully and continued to parade up and down in her draperies. "Betty would look pretty in a veil," said Louise suddenly. "Come on, girls, let's stage a wedding. Libbie won't sleep all night if she doesn't have some romantic outlet. I'll be the father." She seized a pillow and stuffed it in the front of her dressing gown so that it made a very respectable corpulency.
But she came quite out in her white night draperies, which made her appear singularly massive. "Oh, do you suppose there are burglars in the store?" she said. "No. Don't worry, mother." "Do you suppose it is fire?" "No; there is no alarm." "Randolph, you won't open the door until you have asked who it is. Promise me." "It is nobody to be afraid of, mother." "Promise me."
Certainly not the enormously rich ... they didn't buy their provocative draperies from show windows. And even the comfortably off might pause, she thought, before throwing a couple of hundred dollars into a wisp of veiling that didn't reach much below the knees and would look like a weather-beaten cobweb after the second wearing.
Small, chubby cherubs, or cupids doing the work of men, weaving draperies, preparing food, chopping meat, plucking grapes and carrying them away in miniature wheelbarrows, were faithfully portrayed in rich colors.
The Spanish South American Countess was of a camelia paleness, and had almond-shaped dark eyes with brooding lashes under slender brows that met. In contrast, her hair was of a flame colour vivid as her draperies, and her lips were red.
There was a pier table here, supported by griffins, the counterpart in feature of those on the doorstep, which she longed to examine, but the shades were always drawn and the handsome draperies of damask and lace hung in such perfect folds she dared not disturb them. Where was the charm of her father's stories of Friendship? Was it because her grandfather was dead that everything had changed?
The repetition of a given color in different parts of the figure is pushed still further in the blue gray hair of the kneeling figures, the red brown tunics of the monks and the yellow bands upon the draperies.
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