He led her to her seat, nothing loth, and she had the satisfaction of following with her glance Clinton Randall and her rival five minutes more.
"Did you have a good time, Rose?" asked her sister Adeline, next morning, at the breakfast-table.
"Better than I dared to hope," answered Rose, with a smile.
"Did you dance?"
"Two or three times."
She had danced with two partners besides Clinton Randall, and with him a second time.
"It seemed quite like the old times," she said, after a pause, "when we were in society. Though I only appeared in the character of a governess, I enjoyed it."
"Don't you feel tired?"
"A little; but I don't go out to give lessons till afternoon."