It was to be a full-dress affair.

The four boxes had been taken.
Dr.Norman McNeill Hale and his wife were to occupy one.

This was quite a card.

C.R.Walker, dry-goods merchant and possessor of at least two hundred thousand dollars, had taken another; a well-known coal merchant had been induced to take the third, and Hurstwood and his friends the fourth.

Among the latter was Drouet.