This Was A Loan By Mrs.
Joyce, Another Friend In Mourning, And Who Assisted Me In Dressing.
We wanted the benefit of the long mirror in the little parlor of the
hotel, so we carried everything there and locked the door.
And then
the fun commenced! I am afraid that Mrs. Joyce's fingers must have
been badly bruised by the dozens of pins she used, and how she laughed
at me! But if I looked half as dreadful as my reflection in the mirror
I must have been a sight to provoke laughter. We had been requested to
give names to our characters, and Mrs. Joyce said I must be "A Country
Girl," but it still seems to me that "An Idiot" would have been more
appropriate.
I drove over with Major and Mrs. Carleton. The dressing rooms were
crowded at Mrs. Gordon's, so it was an easy matter to slip away, give
my long cloak and thick veil to a maid, and return to Mrs. Carleton
before she had missed me, and it was most laughable to see the dear
lady go in search for me, peering in everyone's face. But she did not
find me, although we went down the stairs and in the drawing-room
together, and neither did one person in those rooms recognize me
during the evening. Lieutenant Joyce said he knew to whom the hair
belonged, but beyond that it was all a mystery.
That evening will never be forgotten, for, as soon as I saw that no
one knew me, I became a child once more, and the more the maskers
laughed the more I ran around.
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