Even the _ennuye_ skipped up and down the room like a school-boy: I never shall forget Richard's happy and relieved expression, when I laughed aloud at somebody's amusing blunder.
Then came the reaction, when the dancing was over, and we were getting ready to go home.

It was a good deal after ten o'clock, and the night was cold.

There were not quite shawls enough, no preparations having been made for staying out after dark.

Richard went up to Sophie (I was standing out by the steps to be ready the moment the carriages should come), and I heard him negotiating with her for a shawl for me.

She was quite impatient and peremptory, though _sotto voce_.