The things we do!

Just we four--no one else at all. You and Jane, the new
Duke of Suffolk and I. Oh! I can hardly wait," and she fairly danced
with joyous anticipation.
The thing had enough irregularity to give it zest, for while Mary
often had a few young people in her drawing-room, the companies were
never so small as two couples only, and the king and queen, to make up
for greater faults, were wonderful sticklers in the matter of little
proprieties.
The ten-crown wager, too, gave spice to it, but to do her justice she
cared very little for that. The princess loved gambling purely for
gambling's sake, and with her, the next best thing to winning was
losing.
When I went to my room that night, I awakened Brandon and told him of
the distinguished honor that awaited him.
"Well! I'll be"--but he did not say what he would "be." He always
halted before an oath, unless angry, which was seldom, but then
beware!--he had learned to swear in Flanders. "How she did fly at me
the other morning. I never was more surprised in all my life.


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