Doctor Frank had the privilege of the first dance.

After that she was surrounded by all the most eligible young men in the room.

Rose, with a glow on her rounded cheeks, and a brilliancy in her eyes, that excitement had lent, danced and flirted, and laughed, and sang, and watched furtively, all the while, the only man present she cared one iota for.

That eminently handsome young officer, Mr.Stanford, after devoting himself, as in duty bound, to his stately fiancee, resigned her, after a while, to an epauletted Colonel from Montreal, and made himself agreeable to Helen Ponsonby, and Emily Howard, and sundry other pretty girls.

Rose watched him angry and jealous inwardly, smiling and radiant outwardly.