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Updated: June 2, 2025
But what most fascinated Mabel was the constant eulogy of her lover's work in the Christian papers; and when at last the formal proposal came, it found her fearful only of her father's disapproval. 'He's so orthodox, she murmured, as they sat in a rose-garlanded niche at a great Jewish Charity Ball, lapped around by waltz-music and the sweetness of love confessed.
And still that tender waltz-music ran lilting through her brain, drifting as it were through the mist of her unshed tears. Suddenly he spoke. They were nearing the pine-wood and quite alone. "Is there anything the matter?" She choked down a great lump in her throat before she could speak in answer. "No," she murmured then. "I I am just rather low about leaving; that's all." "Quite all?" he said.
Therefore she gave a fluttering gesture of relief and satisfaction as the waltz-music just then ceased, and her daughter's figure, tall, slight, and marvellously graceful, detached itself from the swaying crowd in the ballroom and came towards her. "Dearest child!" she exclaimed effusively, "are you not quite tired out?" The "dearest child" shrugged her white shoulders and laughed.
The grounds looked very brilliant pink-and-white marquees were dotted here and there on the smooth velvet lawns bright flags waved from different quarters of the gardens, signals of tennis, archery, and dancing, and the voluptuous waltz-music of a fine Hungarian band rose up and swayed in the air with the downward floating songs of the birds and the dash of fountains in full play.
The other part is the night-life not the night-life of gambling saloons and their kind: of that dark underground existence Society has no knowledge, though he who left it at daybreak and will go back to it at midnight clasps the last débutante in his arms and whirls with her to the sweet waltz-music but the night-life of the Season.
Only a few yards away the lilting waltz-music was quickening to a finish. In a few moments more their privacy would be invaded by the giddy dancers. "Listen!" said Noel, and his voice fell short and stern. "He shan't have you! That I swear! It's monstrous it's unthinkable! Why, he's old enough to be your father. And he's got the opium-habit. Max told me so.
She had received some new waltz-music from Vienna which she wanted to look over, and Ugo might help her. She was not a musician, but was fond of a cheerful noise, and played upon the piano with the average skill of a well-educated young woman of the world. Of course the doors were left open between the drawing-room and the boudoir, where the Countess dozed over her book and presently fell asleep.
To where they sat came bursts of boisterous laughter and of the waltz-music of the pianola in the hall, for in the shooting season the echoes of the fine mansion were awakened by the merriment of as gay a crowd as any who assembled in the Highlands. Sir Henry heard it. The sounds jarred upon his nerves. Mirth such as theirs was debarred him for ever, and he had now become gloomy and misanthropic.
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