Four thousand five hundred tickets had been issued and a certain number of these, still blank, had disappeared.
That was certain.

And it was also certain that the King did not go to the door of the supper-room as usual.

But the writer remarks that the tickets may have been stolen by, or for, people who could not obtain them legitimately.

But the instantly conceived suspicion of a plot is illustrative of the conditions of feeling and opinions in Paris at the time.
"For my part," continues Mademoiselle D'Henin, "I never enjoyed a ball so much; perhaps because I did not expect to be amused; perhaps because all the royal family, the Jockey Club, and the fastidious Frenchwomen congratulated me upon my toilet, and voted it one of the handsomest there.

They _said_ the most becoming (but that was _de l'eau benite de Cour_); perhaps it was because the Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, and Aumale, who never dance, and did so very little that evening, all three honoured me with a quadrille.