For one night only she would live a dream!
*
It was more wonderful than she could ever have imagined.
She had walked the last two hundred yards of the driveway that led to the house, having been dropped off by Hattie near some rhododendron bushes.
She kept close under the trees, but still she was seen by other guests riding by in their coaches. They gaped in astonishment at this ghostly apparition gliding along.
Andrea was admitted by the doorman, who scanned her up and down with unguarded admiration before peering beyond her to see whose carriage she had arrived in.
Finding none there, he turned with a perplexed eye to watch her ascend the marble stairway.
Andrea had natural grace and she moved with great poise, but even so she trembled as she was asked her name at the ballroom do
