What they saw merely whetted their curiosity.
"I must see more," cried Elizabeth, rushing around to the door, which opened at her touch.

Xanthippe and Ophelia followed close on her heels, and shortly they found themselves, open-mouthed in wondering admiration, in the billiard-room of the floating palace, and Richard, the ghost of the best billiard-room attendant in or out of Hades, stood before them.
"Excuse me," he said, very much upset by the sudden apparition of the ladies.

"I'm very sorry, but ladies are not admitted here." "We are equally sorry," retorted Elizabeth, assuming her most imperious manner, "that your masters have seen fit to prohibit our being here; but, now that we are here, we intend to make the most of the opportunity, particularly as there seem to be no members about.

What has become of them all ?" Richard smiled broadly.

"I don't know where they are," he replied; but it was evident that he was not telling the exact truth.
"Oh, come, my boy," said the Queen, kindly, "you do know.