Then, as he recalled what Ethelyn had said about his remaining at home if he were ill, he leaped to his feet, and an oath quivered on his lips at her duplicity.
"False in every respect," he muttered, "and I trusted her so much." It never occurred to him that the note was a strange one for what he imagined it to portend, Frank merely charging Ethelyn to be present at the party, without even announcing his arrival or giving any explanation for his sudden appearance in Camden.

Richard was too much excited to reason upon anything, and stood leaning upon the piano, with his livid face turned toward the door, when Ethie made her appearance, looking very pretty and piquant in her Mary Stuart guise.

She held her mask in her hand, but when she caught a glimpse of him she hastily adjusted it, and springing forward, "Where were you so long?
I began to think you were never coming.

We shall be among the very last.

How do I look as Mary?
Am I pretty enough to make an old maid like Elizabeth jealous of me ?" Had anything been wanting to perfect Richard's wrath, that allusion to an "old maid" would have done it.