Servants move in and out carrying fancy dishes and silver cutlery.

Here there is a quarrel over a broken plate, there they laugh at the simple country girl.

Everywhere there is ordering, whispering, shouting.

Comments and conjectures are made, one hurries the other,--all is commotion, noise, and confusion.

All this effort and all this toil are for the stranger as well as the acquaintance, to entertain every one, whether he has been seen before or not, or whether he is expected to be seen again, in order that the casual visitor, the foreigner, friend, enemy, Filipino, Spaniard, the poor and the rich, may go away happy and contented.