The pipers in the balcony had burst forth in a ribald jig of a tune, and the girl was whirling in a wild, weird, and wondrous dance before her lover-cousin.

Sir George ordered the pipers to cease playing; but again Elizabeth, who was filled with mirth, interrupted, and the music pealed forth in wanton volumes which flooded the gallery.

Dorothy danced like an elfin gypsy to the inspiring strains.
Soon her dance changed to wondrous imitations of the movements of a horse.
She walked sedately around in an ever increasing circle; she trotted and paced; she gave the single foot and racked; she galloped, slowly for a while, and then the gallop merged into a furious run which sent the blood of her audience thrilling through their veins with delight.

The wondrous ease and grace, and the marvellous strength and quickness of her movements, cannot be described.

I had never before thought the human body capable of such grace and agility as she displayed.
After her dance was finished she stepped in front of her cousin and delivered herself as follows:-- "I am sound from ear tip to fetlock.