The Reason Why

Chapter 25

After luncheon, which had been carried through with all the proper

ceremonies of the olden time according to Jimmy Danvers and Young

Billy's interpretation of them, it came on to pour with rain; so these

masters of the revels said that now the medieval dances should begin,

and accordingly they turned on the gramophone that stood in the corner

to amuse the children at the school treats. And Mary and her admirer,

Lord Henry Burns, and Emily and a Captain Hume, and Lady Betty and Jimmy

Danvers, gayly took the floor, while Young Billy offered himself to the

bride, as he said he as the representative of the Lord of the Castle had

a right to the loveliest lady; and, with his young, stolid

self-confidence, he pushed Lord Elterton aside.

Zara had not danced for a very long time--four ye