And with that she must put on her pale green silk stockings, her new little satin slippers to match, with the large paste buckles--and a sash of green satin looped through another glittering buckle at the side of the waist, with long ends loosely knotted together at the knee.

I must tie her fair hair with a silver ribbon, and pin upon her curls a large hat of reseda green with a golden-brown ostrich feather drooping behind.

I warned mademoiselle that there was a tiny fire burning in the salon.
Even with the fire-screen in front of it there would still be a little light upon the floor, and the glittering buckles on her feet would betray her, even if the rustle of her dress did not.

But she said she would kick her slippers off.

Ah, gentlemen, it is, after all, not so that one dresses for a seance," she cried, shaking her head.