Chapter 103How to describe the dismay of the Party? For most, it was a moment of absolute horror. Sir Thomas in the house! Everyone felt the immediate conviction. Nowhere was there any hope of imposition or error. Julia's looks were proof that it was undeniable; and after the first ascents and exclamations, not a word was spoken for half a minute: each with a changed face looked at the other, and almost everyone felt it was a most unwelcome, inconvenient, most horrific blow! Yates-san might just see it as an annoying interruption to the evening, and Mr. Rushmore could think of it as a blessing; but every other heart sank under a certain degree of self-condemnation or indefinite alarm, every other heart suggested, "What will become of us? What to do now?" It was a terrible break; and terrib
