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Updated: May 12, 2025
An expected family event had prevented her from gracing the Coronation. "My dear" and Lady Tilchester imitated her voice exactly "it is a dispensation of Providence that circumstances did not permit me to attend this ceremony. You Englishwomen would have gone anyhow; but we Americans are different.
She hopes I will see that he wears his second thinnest Jäger vests in Paris, not the thinnest which ought to be kept for August warmth as once before when there he caught a bad catarrh of the chest through this imprudence. Lady Tilchester is coming down from London in a special train on purpose to grace our bridal ceremony. She has sent me the prettiest brooch and such a nice letter.
"Why, by the stars and stripes, there is a ghost in the gallery!" exclaimed Miss Corrisande K. Trumpet, pointing to me. The faint glimmer of my white velvet tea-gown must have caught her eyes as I moved away. "No, I am not a ghost," I called, "and I am coming down to eat hot muffins." So I crossed and descended the turret stairs. Lady Tilchester had not appeared yet.
Now it was really bliss, dancing with this man; we swam along, swift and smoothly. I could no longer see the walls; a maze of lights was all my vision grasped I felt bewildered happy. We stopped a moment and he bent down and smiled at me. "You look as if you liked dancing," he said. "Poor Lady Tilchester is being mauled by that bear in your place." I laughed. "I love dancing."
No one was witty like grandmamma and the Marquis, but every one was in a good temper and it was gay. The party was rather more punctual at dinner on Sunday night, and Lady Tilchester had arranged, as she meant to the night before, that I should sit next her politician. Mr. Budge and Mrs. Gurrage the names went well together!
Lady Tilchester interrupted further conversation by carrying me off to see the garden. She is the most fascinating personality I have yet met. There is something like the sun's rays about her you feel warmed and comforted when she is near. She looks so great and noble, and above all common things, one cannot help wondering why she married Lord Tilchester, who is quite ordinary.
"He is a dear fellow when you know him, though a bit masterful." I bowed. "Gussie's awfully spoony on you," she went on. "I said to aunt weeks ago I knew what was up," she giggled. I bowed again. "I say, he'll give you a bouquet for the ball to-night; we are going into Tilchester now to fetch it." I could not bow a third time, so I said: "Is not a bouquet rather in the way of dancing?
The Duke stepped forward to help her down. "Don't you trouble," she said. "Why, we had a gymnasium at the convent. I can jump." Lady Grenellen now appeared upon the scene. She looked like an angry cat. I turned, with Lady Tilchester, and left the rest of the party.
We chat about the weather at tea, and no one ever says a word they really think; and we play idiotic, childish games of cards for love in the evening; and it is all feeble and wearisome, and the guests are always looking at the clock." Lady Tilchester came and joined us; it seemed a breath of fresh sunlight illuminating the scene. "You appear all to be talking scandal," she said.
"Even Lady Tilchester, who is by far the nicest and grandest of them, does not look such an aristocrat as you do." "I assure you, I am a very ordinary person," I said. "But you are right, I am a stranger, too." "Now I am glad to hear that," said Miss Trumpet, beginning to polish her nails with my polisher, which was lying on the dressing-table. "Because then I can talk to you.
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