They preferred to satisfy their hunger at the various booths.
"Oh, there goes Emma," laughed Grace, as late that evening she caught a glimpse of the Egyptian mystery parading majestically down the room ahead of her, then stopping at the Japanese booth to exchange a word with the giggling Emerson twins, who thought the Sphinx the greatest joke imaginable.
A little later as Grace was about to return to the gypsy camp she heard a sudden swish of draperies behind her.

Glancing hastily about, she laughed as she saw the Sphinx's unwieldy head towering above her.
"Oh, Great and Wonderful Mystery--" began Grace.
But Emma answered almost crossly: "Don't 'Great and Wonderful Mystery' me.

This head is becoming a dead weight, and I'm thirsty and tired, and, besides, something disagreeable just happened." "What was it ?" asked Grace unthinkingly.

Then, "I beg your pardon, Emma, I didn't realize the rudeness of my question.

Pretend you didn't hear what I said." "Oh, that is all right," responded Emma laconically.