What of that, what difference did that make to him?
He wanted to see how they would start to dance and he was sure that they would dance in the parlour, but they had already commenced to dance, not in the parlour, but under the linden trees.

He wanted to see how they would light the lanterns, but the lanterns had all been lit already, every one of them, to the very last of the last.
They lit up of themselves like stars.
Mamma danced best of all..