Ninety-nine women can threaten a scene of the kind Lady Winterbourne dreaded, for one that can carry it through.
Marcella wavered; then, with her most forbidding air, she made a scarcely perceptible return of Lord Wandle's bow.
"Did you escape in here out of the heat ?" he asked her.

"But I am afraid no one lets you escape to-night.

The occasion is too interesting." Marcella made no reply.

Lady Winterbourne threw in a nervous remark on the crowd.
"Oh, yes, a great crush," said Lord Wandle.

"Of course, we all come to see Aldous happy.