CHAPTER FOURThe ballroom was even lovelier than Paulina had expected.
She had heard so often of how the Czar changed ballrooms into gardens and gardens into fantastic Palaces.
Sometimes as many as three thousand workmen were employed to produce rockeries and fountains inside The Palace.
She thought now that the ballroom was indeed a perfect setting for the peacock uniforms designed by the Czar while the gigantic mirrors reflected the brilliance of the jewels sparkling and shimmering as the ladies spun and dipped to the music of innumerable violins.
Although she had been to a number of balls in Altauss and one or two in Italy before she had really grown up, this surpassed anything that she had ever seen or imagined.
She had felt as if she had stepped into a Fairytale Ballet where every
