"William and Mary. Now that would be an original costume. I should have——"
"Don't be ridiculous. Why not Henry VIII.?"
"Do you think I should get a lot of partners as Henry VIII.? Anyhow, I don't think it's a very becoming figure."
"But you don't wear fancy dress simply because it's becoming."
"Well, that is rather the point to settle. Are we going to enhance my natural beauty, or would you like it—er—toned down a little? Of course, I could go as the dog-faced man, only——"
"Very well then, if you don't like Henry, what about Edward I.?"
"But why do you want to thrust royalty on me? I'd much sooner go as Perkin Warbeck. I should wear a brown perkin—jerkin."
"Jack is going as Sir Walter Raleigh."
"Then I shall certainly touch him for a cigarette," I said, as I got up to go.
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