The whole building looked to me as if it were learning to swim; it conducted itself in such an unaccountable manner, when I tried to steady it.
On somebody's motion, we resolved to go downstairs to the dress-boxes, where the ladies were.

A gentleman lounging, full dressed, on a sofa, with an opera-glass in his hand, passed before my view, and also my own figure at full length in a glass.

Then I was being ushered into one of these boxes, and found myself saying something as I sat down, and people about me crying 'Silence!' to somebody, and ladies casting indignant glances at me, and--what! yes!--Agnes, sitting on the seat before me, in the same box, with a lady and gentleman beside her, whom I didn't know.

I see her face now, better than I did then, I dare say, with its indelible look of regret and wonder turned upon me.
'Agnes!' I said, thickly, 'Lorblessmer! Agnes!' 'Hush! Pray!' she answered, I could not conceive why.

'You disturb the company.