Dinner was served in a large room on the second floor with Venetian windows and a door opening out onto the balcony under the portico.

And then he gives us these vivid little vignettes of those who sat at the great table: In the centre sat "Vice-president Adams in full dress, with his bag and _solitaire_, his hair frizzed out each side of his face as you see it in Stuart's older pictures of him.

On his right sat Baron Steuben, our royalist republican disciplinarian general.

On his left was Mr.
Jefferson, who had just returned from France, conspicuous in his red waistcoat and breeches, the fashion of Versailles.

Opposite sat Mrs.
Adams, with her cheerful, intelligent face.