Your shadow had to be someone of the opposite sex, you see, and every alternate dance throughout the evening you danced with your shadow-partner.

Quite a clever idea; young Graf von Schnatelstein is supposed to have invented it." "New York will be deeply beholden to him," said the other; "shadow-dances, with all manner of eccentric variations, will be the rage there for the next eighteen months." "Some of the costumes were really sumptuous," continued Cornelian; "the Duchess of Dreyshire was magnificent as Aholibah, you never saw so many jewels on one person, only of course she didn't look dark enough for the character; she had Billy Carnset for her shadow, representing Unspeakable Depravity." "How on earth did he manage that ?" "Oh, a blend of Beardsley and Bakst as far as get-up and costume, and of course his own personality counted for a good deal.

Quite one of the successes of the evening was Leutnant von Gabelroth, as George Washington, with Joan Mardle as his shadow, typifying Inconvenient Candour.

He put her down officially as Truthfulness, but every one had heard the other version." "Good for the Gabelroth, though he does belong to the invading Horde; it's not often that any one scores off Joan." "Another blaze of magnificence was the loud-voiced Bessimer woman, as the Goddess Juno, with peacock tails and opals all over her; she had Ronnie Storre to represent Green-eyed Jealousy.

Talking of Ronnie Storre and of jealousy, you will naturally wonder whom Mrs.Yeovil went with.