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You can have five safe." She took no more, Jane went into the dressing-room and stood near its door, holding the watch in her hand, but even five minutes did her good. She felt less delirious when she descended the stairs and passed through the crowds again on Lord Walderhurst's arm. She seemed to walk through a garden in resplendent bloom.
Hiding in the lumber-room next to the young prima donna's dressing-room, I listened to wonderful musical displays that evidently flung Christine into marvelous ecstasy; but, all the same, I would never have thought that Erik's voice which was loud as thunder or soft as angels' voices, at will could have made her forget his ugliness.
General and Lady Blake were arriving this evening, and the spare room of the Trellis House had to be got ready for them, and Rose's room a lengthier matter this transformed into a dressing-room. But at last everything was ready, and then Rose went off, alone, to the station, to meet the London express.
She retained the manners of a shop-girl. Her slightly artificial amiability, sometimes too humble, was as unpleasant as the spurious elegance of the shop; and her disdainful attitudes recalled the superb airs of the head saleswomen in the great dry-goods establishments, arrayed in black silk gowns, which they take off in the dressing-room when they go away at night who stare with an imposing air, from the vantage-point of their mountains of curls, at the poor creatures who venture to discuss prices.
"Do you admire fowls wrapped in flannel or in arrosto?" When she came out she found Rosina waiting for her in the courtyard, a grey shadow with smooth fair hair shining in the moonlight. "The professor let me go at eight so I dressed and came out here," she explained. "The dressing-room is full of dust and spider's webs.
"Very pretty at Islington. You don't ride for me no more." "Very good, sir," said Monkey, quite unperturbed. As he left the dressing-room Mat met him. "Lost your job, ain't you?" he said. "Care to come to me? I'm Mat Woodburn." Monkey grinned. "I know you, sir," he said. "Yes, sir. Thank you. I'm there." Thus began that curious partnership between the two men which had endured twenty-five years.
On one side of my dressing-room Archie Lammerton had provided a huge closet containing the latest devices for the keeping of a multitudinous wardrobe; there was a reading-lamp, and the easiest of easy-chairs, imported from England, while between the windows were shelves of Italian walnut which I had filled with the books I had bought while at Cambridge, and had never since opened.
This point, therefore, was settled; but soon there came other things to sadden Lady Mardykes. There occurred a little incident, soon after Sir Bale's return from London, which recalled the topic on which they had so nearly quarrelled. Sir Bale had a dressing-room, remote from the bedrooms, in which he sat and read and sometimes smoked.
"Elsie," he replied, in a tone of great displeasure, "it was only the other day that I positively forbade you to play that game, and, after all that I have said to you about not asking a second time, it surprises me very much that you would dare to do it. Go to my dressing-room, and shut yourself into the closet there."
That such battles take place in other domestic establishments, who shall say or shall not say? Who, when he goes out to dinner, and is received by a bland host with a gay shake of the hand, and a pretty hostess with a gracious smile of welcome, dares to think that Mr. Johnson upstairs, half an hour before, was swearing out of his dressing-room at Mrs.
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