The streets swarmed with fashionable young men and women from the provinces of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, who gave Sybil abundance of occupation.
She received bulletins of the progress of affairs.

The President and his wife had consented to be present, out of their high respect for Her Majesty the Queen and their desire to see and to be seen.

All the Cabinet would accompany the Chief Magistrate.

The diplomatic corps would appear in uniform; so, too, the officers of the army and navy; the Governor-General of Canada was coming, with a staff.

Lord Skye remarked that the Governor-General was a flat.
The day of the ball was a day of anxiety to Sybil, although not on account of Mr.Ratcliffe or of Mr.Carrington, who were of trifling consequence compared with the serious problem now before her.