"Have you girls heard already?
Well, please forget about it for tonight--and above all don't let M.Debienne and M.Poligny hear; it would upset them too much on their last day." They all went on to the foyer of the ballet, which was already full of people.

The Comte de Chagny was right; no gala performance ever equalled this one.

All the great composers of the day had conducted their own works in turns.

Faure and Krauss had sung; and, on that evening, Christine Daae had revealed her true self, for the first time, to the astonished and enthusiastic audience.

Gounod had conducted the Funeral March of a Marionnette; Reyer, his beautiful overture to Siguar; Saint Saens, the Danse Macabre and a Reverie Orientale; Massenet, an unpublished Hungarian march; Guiraud, his Carnaval; Delibes, the Valse Lente from Sylvia and the Pizzicati from Coppelia.
Mlle.