“No, I think not. I think the best plan is to wear a domino and mask, as we go in with you ladies, so that you may not be recognized. Then after awhile we will leave you and go out into the vestibule and take off our masks and return unmasked.”
“But why not keep masked?” Clarence asked.
“Because we will have no fun at all with masks on. The ladies not knowing who we are will have nothing to say to us. But if they see who we are, then they'll come and talk saucily, thinking we will not recognize them. We will, though, and then the fun begins.”
“Nobody knows at home what my domino is to look like, but I think Bob will recognize my voice, and know who we all are, as he knows I am going with you,” Miss Gunther said.
“But is he not to be of our party?” Mrs. Mechlin asked.
“No; he is going to escort Miss Selden. My brother Charles will be my escort. He will be in our secret, of course. How I wish we could mystify Bob.”
“But we can't, if we speak to him, as he will recognize our voices, Mercedes and mine, by our accent immediately,” Elvira said.
“You can mimic the German way of talking English, and Mercedes can talk half French and half English, with an Irish brogue,” George suggested.
“She talks Irish brogue to perfection,” Elvira said.
“But I'll have to practice before I would speak to him,” said Mercedes.