I am up to them all, from backgammon to a cotillon,--not but what I prefer the cotillon for my own taste." "Or leap-frog, perhaps," suggested Florence.
"Well, yes; leap-frog used to be a good game at Gother School, and I don't see why we shouldn't have it back again.

Ladies, of course, must have a costume on purpose.

But I am fond of anything that requires a costume.

Don't you like everything out of the common way?
I do." Florence assured him that their tastes were wholly dissimilar, as she liked everything in the common way.

"That's what I call an uncommonly pretty girl," he said afterward to M.Grascour, while Sir Magnus was talking to Sir Thomas.