The quadrille was over, I was engaged for the next, and he had not come back.

I saw nothing of him till the country dance before supper.

He was at the foot of the long line, opposite a pretty girl in blue, looking very solemn and stately.

I took off the glove from my hand which wore the new diamond, and held it up, expecting him to look my way soon.

Its flash caught his eyes, as they roamed up and down, and, as I expected, he left his place and came up behind me.
"Where did you get that ring ?" wiping his face with his handkerchief.
"Ask Alice." "You are politic." "Handsome, isn't it ?" "And valuable; it cost as much as the new horse." "Have you made a memorandum of it ?" "Destiny has brilliant spokes in her wheel, hasn't she ?" "Is that from the Greek tragedies ?" "To your places, gentlemen," the floor-manager called, and the band struck up the Fisher's Hornpipe.