Chapter 24
Just as the sun began to sink, several little pages came out of the house, and with low salutations, distributed among the guests, daintily embossed and painted programmes of the 'Tableaux Vivants,' prepared for their diversion in the extemporized bijou theatre. Numbers of people rose at once from their chairs on the lawn, eager for this new spectacle, and began to scramble along and hustle one another in that effective style of' high breeding' so frequently exhibited at Her Majesty's Drawing-Rooms. I, with Sibyl, hastily preceded the impatient, pushing crowd, for I wished to find a good seat for my beautiful betrothed before the room became full to overflowing. There proved, however, to be plenty of accommodation for everybody,—what space there was seemed capable of limitless
