Chapter SixOne of the guests rose to her feet with obvious reluctance.
“I suppose we ought to go,” she said, “but I cannot remember when I have enjoyed an evening more.”
It was a sentiment that, Alita knew, everyone in the room could echo with all sincerity.
She herself had found that every moment of the dinner party and what had followed was so exciting and so unlike any evening she had ever before known that she longed for it to go on and on and never end.
After dinner, at which the food had been superlative and the wines chosen with a discriminating taste, they had moved into the large salon and there everyone seemed ready to give a performance.
Nellie Farren sang and danced, Miss Wadman not only sang herself but got everyone else singing with her and several other members of the p
