“Is that all?”
“I am going to Vaux to be an angel in the Marquis’s play, so that is my name and it is easy to remember.”
“It would be impossible for anyone to forget you!” the gentleman responded gallantly.
As Angela looked at Trevor, she saw that he was frowning.
She, therefore, did not talk, but lapsed into an awkward silence.
The rest of the party began to arrive.
The five girls from The Gaiety were exactly what Angela expected and they seemed to her to be even more beautiful off-stage than they were on.
She recognised two of them, as she had seen them coming down the staircase.
They were dressed even more elegantly than she was in gowns of silk that rustled when they moved.
There were feathers in their hats and the diamonds in their ears and round their necks and wrists gliste
