16/18 It's your party, you know--but I sincerely hope Mrs.Tudor will come.' 'Oh yes,' said Clementina, the tongue of whose eloquence was now loosened. 'You must come, Mrs.Tudor; indeed you must. It will be so charming; just a few nice people, you know, and nothing more.' 'Thank you,' said Gertrude; 'but I never dance now.' She had inwardly resolved that nothing should ever induce her again to enter Mrs.Val's house. We only mean to dance one kind of dance--that new thing they have just brought over from Spain--the Contrabandista. |