‘How will you manage that? You will go to the ball-room, I suppose. You can go where you please, of course.’
‘Oh no! I’m not grand enough to be invited. Oh, dear no! At least I am not old enough.’
‘But you will be some day.’
‘I don’t know. Perhaps. We’ll see. Meantime we must make the best of it. What are you going to do?’
‘I shall go back to the library.’
‘Then I’ll go with you—till the music begins; and then I’ll take you where you can see a little of the dancing. It’s great fun.’
‘But how will you manage that?’
‘You leave that to me.’
We descended at once to the armoury, where I had left my candle; and thence we returned to the library.
‘Would you like me to read to you?’ I asked.