Shall you be dressed?
I will ring for the girl to help you." "But, Rose, the scream, and that terrible fall.

Ah! where is Josephine ?" "Can't you guess, mamma?
Oh, the fall was only the screen; they stumbled over it in the dark." "They! who ?" "Colonel Raynal, and--and Edouard.

I will tell you, mamma, but don't be angry, or even mention it; they wanted to surprise us.

They saw a light burning, and they crept on tiptoe up to the tapestried room, where Josephine and I were, and they did give us a great fright." "What madness!" cried the baroness, angrily; "and in Josephine's weak state! Such a surprise might have driven her into a fit." "Yes, it was foolish, but let it pass, mamma.

Don't speak of it, for he is so sorry about it." Then Rose slipped out, ordered a fire in the salon, and not in the tapestried room, and the next minute was at her sister's door.