, my dear, a

ter the style of a hundred years ago, stood on the threshold of Dinah's room, awaiting permission to enter. Her dress was of palest green satin brocade,

e in! Come in! I'm not nearly ready,-never shall be, I thi

ite sure of taking the ballroom by storm. She found Dinah scurrying barefooted about the room with her hair

d them this morning. Can Yvonne have taken them by mist

together in hopeless confusion. Rose came forward. "Sur

for the stockings. Where can they be? I

or them. I am afraid you will not be able to count on any help from Yvonne to-night. She ha

h I'd never gone in for this stupid fan

nah. "Well, I can help you for a few minutes. I can't think

h was dragging at her hair with impatient fingers. "What a swell you loo

e, looking at herself complacentl

r! I can't do anything with it. I believe I shall cut it

pped them under. I should think the more simply you do your hair the better if you are going to wear a c

them back with a comb, which I haven't got. Oh, don't stay, Rose! I kno

said Rose turning ag

d temper too, and I want to use language-horrid lang

ly gaze and watched he

denly flashed resentfu

l's flushed cheek, and

!" sh

Dinah whizzed round from the glass like a naughty fairy in a rage. "Rose de V

id had so deftly fitted upon her that morning refused to be adjusted properly. The fastenings baffled her, and fina

ar, and then at last she became desperate. "Billy must do it," she sai

turned it, she almost collided with a figure coming in the opposite directio

ed. "Do come along and help me l

discovered her mistake, and then in th

elp you with pleasu

kindness of his response, or possibly only the extremity of her need-some

ught it was Billy. I've got my sleeve caugh

you will allow

broken with trying to get free. You can't see her

t. "I know what it is to have thi

mplicity, stopped by the light, and proceeded wi

d her at last. "Billy would have torn the stuff in all directions

sked Scott, looking at her wit

want someone to pin a handkerchief on my head in the proper

ou like to bring me the handkerchief, I will see what I can do. I know a little about it

her head. "O

r has," said Scott.

ll she think?" crie

bye if I may. I am sure she will be interested and pleased. Yo

s wont, and Dinah hastened back into her room wondering if this inform

. "I wonder if I really am. But really-he is such

ns. He came back in an incredibly short time, armed with

r hair, notwithstanding its waywardness, clustered very prettily abou

" she said. "I'm quite dresse

come in," he answered. "

a chair out, I coul

s down the passage, they'll wonder wha

s," said Scott in a matter of-fac

out her laugh. Most people smiled quite involuntarily when they

zzically, "are you going to sit in th

You will fasten it so that it doesn't flop, won't

in of coral there. Perhaps you can find it.

parkling eyes. "But are you sure-q

nning to drape the handkerchie

eel like Cinderella being dressed for the ball. Oh, w

case and was literally r

ng present to her," said Scott

to be married!" said Di

ink so?" s

chair to regard

te imagine i

inking there's no one else in the world like you. Have you never dreamt that such a thin

och in the red kerchief above her forehead. He

either waking or sleeping, into imagining that anyb

ent. "If any woman ever wants to marry you, she'll

he will,"

g to her, she leads them on till they make perfect idiots of themselves. I think it's simply horr

ou wish?"

it's in the air here. I was going to say, how I wished I could outshine her for just one night! Isn't that piggy of me? But I a

y," observed Scott, with h

of them!" said Dinah. "And d

nd picked out the coral chain. "I don't

ching glance. "Not really?

epth of my unfathomab

at man," said Dina

ement. "Oh, does that follow? I've ne

ouch of reverence in her look. "You evidently don't know yourself in

one if that's any comfort." He stooped to fasten the

I am longing to go and look at myself. But

moments a sparkling and glorified Dinah rose and skipped in

ten minutes. Moreover he was sure she would be pleased with the result of his labours. B

nt Dinah flashed out again like a radia

ou do it? How can I thank you? I've n

"Then you have never seen yourself with the eyes of oth

you! Thank you a hundred times! I'

that?"

ch of shyness. "That-Ap

"Oh, is that all? Then I wil

t tell him!"

ences," declared Scott

other bow,