"You are the very picture of _Lynette_, with your enchanting nose 'tiptilted like the tender petal of a flower,' and your shameful treatment of poor Jimmy!" And Lady Betty, after bridling a little, consented.
Then the other parts were cast.

Emily should be _Enid_ and Mary, _Elaine_, while Lady Melton, Lady Thornby and Mrs.Harcourt should be the _Three Fair Queens_.
"I shall be _Ettarre_," said Lily Opie.

"The others are all good and dull; and I prefer her, because I am sure she wasn't! And certainly Lady Highford must be _Vivien_! She is exactly the type, in one of her tea gowns!" Laura rather liked the idea of _Vivien_.

It had _cachet_, she thought.
She was very fond of posing as a mysterious enchantress, the mystic touch pleased her vanity.
So, of the whole party, only Zara did not feel content.

Tristram might think she had chosen this herself, as an advance towards him.
Then the discussion, as to the garments to be worn, began.