Yet she was puzzled; it seemed a strange, a horrible business.

What did Lord M.think?
Lord M.thought it was a very fine play, but to be sure, "a rough, coarse play, written for those times, with exaggerated characters." "I'm glad you've seen it," he added.

But, undoubtedly, the evenings which she enjoyed most were those on which there was dancing.

She was always ready enough to seize any excuse--the arrival of cousins--a birthday--a gathering of young people--to give the command for that.

Then, when the band played, and the figures of the dancers swayed to the music, and she felt her own figure swaying too, with youthful spirits so close on every side--then her happiness reached its height, her eyes sparkled, she must go on and on into the small hours of the morning.