But Matilda who was beautiful, warm-blooded and wayward did not.

She loved Burgwyne with a reciprocal ardour, and when the masked ball at the Brevoorts' came on the tapis it seemed as though the Goddess of Romance had absolutely stretched out her hands to these two reckless, but adorable lovers.
They had a favourite poem--most lovers have favourite poems;--theirs was "Lalla Rookh." There may be diverse opinions as to Thomas Moore's greatness, but there can scarcely be two as to his lyric gift.

He could write charming love-songs, simple and yet full of colour, and, given the Oriental theme, it is no wonder that youths and maidens of his day sighed and smiled over "Lalla Rookh" as over nothing that had yet been written for them.

It is a delightful tale, half-prose and half-poetry, written entirely and whole-heartedly for lovers, and Burgwyne and Matilda found it easy to put themselves in the places of the romantic characters in the drama--Lalla Rookh, the incomparably beautiful Eastern Princess and Feramorz, the young Prince in disguise, "graceful as that idol of women, Crishna." [Illustration: GROVE STREET.

Looking toward St.Luke's Church.] They secretly agreed to go to the masked ball at the Brevoorts' as their romantic favourites and prototypes.