And when Friday night came she began to dress for the dance with a brave heart.

She was to go to The Springs with her uncle and aunt, who were coming on horseback that afternoon, and would then go on to The Springs in old Hugh's carriage, which was the only one in Carlyle then.
They were to leave in time to reach The Springs before nightfall, for the October nights were dark and the wooded roads rough for travelling.
"When Ursula was ready she looked at herself in the glass with a good deal of satisfaction.

Yes, Felicity, she was a vain baggage, that same Ursula, but that kind didn't all die out a hundred years ago.

And she had good reason for being vain.

She wore the sea-green silk which had been brought out from England a year before and worn but once--at the Christmas ball at Government House.