Dominga, as she moved on, turned her long neck, and with one of her peacock screams, cried:
"Happy friends!"
CHAPTER XXXV
Mrs. Lepell resolutely refused to dance; she declared that she did not consider it compatible with her responsibility as chaperon. But she chatted to her many friends, and listened complacently to the warm admiration they expressed for the pretty girl she brought with her. All at once Brian Salwey came and threw himself into a seat beside her, and said:
"Now, I'm going to give you a shock, Aunt Liz."
"That will be nothing new," she retorted with a laugh.
"But this, I warn you, will be out of the common. Do you know what brought me here to-night?"
"The train, and a second-class gharry."
"Yes; and the solemn resolve to ask Miss Verona Chandos to marry me!"
"No words can express my astonishment! Brian, you must be mad!" she exclaimed.