Miss Bailey, a small, round, efficient person with nice eyes and good manners, moved about among her guests, all of whom she seemed to know.

The best cheese sandwiches in New York went round.

A girl in a vampire costume of grey--hooded and with long trailing sleeves--got up from her solitary place in the corner.

She seemed to be wearing, beneath the theatrical garment, a kimono and bedroom slippers.

Obviously she had simply drifted in for sandwiches before going to bed.