While Drusilla was still gazing with curiosity and delight upon the various objects of interest in the room, this curtain was drawn aside as by invisible hands, revealing an elegant little dining-room, where a luxurious supper was spread.
Alexander, with a laughing assumption of ceremony, led Drusilla to the head of the table, bowed, and took his place at the foot.
A handsome negro boy, so like Pina as to be recognizable at once for her brother, waited at table.
“My dear, this is your other servant—footman, coachman, and groom—all in one. He is named Leander; but for convenience we shall call him ‘Leo.’ Just as we call his sister, who exults in the imperial name of Agrippina, simply ‘Pina,’” said Alexander, as he placed the breast of a roast pheasant on Drusilla’s plate.
It was a pleasant supper, as you may judge.
And it was followed by a happy evening.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE WILD WOOD HOME BY DAY.
It is a quiet picture of delight,
The pretty cottage hiding from the sun
In the thick woods. We see it not till there,