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Chapter 3

It invariably happened in the same way.

Mrs. Julius Beaufort on the night of her annual ball never failed to appear at the opera.

Indeed, she always gave her ball on an opera night in order to emphasize her complete superiority

to household cares and her possession of a staff of servants competent to organize every

detail of the entertainment in her absence.

The Beaufort's house was one of the few in New York that possessed a ballroom.

It antedated even Mrs. Manson Mingots and the headly shiverses.

And at a time when it was beginning to be thought provincial to put a crash over the

drawing room floor and move the furniture upstairs, the possession of a ballroom that was

used for no other purpose and left for 364 days of the year to shutter darkness with its

guilt chairs stacked in a corner and chandelier in a bag.

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