Jerry look embarrassed.
"Oh, my word," laughed Bobs. "Cinderella quoting Oscar Wilde to her fairy godfather!"
CHAPTER V
During the ride in the cab, Jerry felt his first uncomfortable minutes with Jane. He did not know what to say to her. It overturned all his ideas of her to have her quoting Oscar Wilde at him. He would not have known that it was Oscar Wilde, but Bobs said it was. He had never really looked at this woman, who had gone among them all these years, and all at once to-night, she was beautiful! He was so upset by it all that for once he was silent.
Jane, who was not in the least embarrassed, came to his rescue.
"Tell me exactly what I am to do, please, Mr. Paxton."
"Well, there is a platform and a long flight of stairs leading down from it. The tableaux form on the stage and then dissolve and go down the stairs into the throne room."
"I see. Am I in a tableau?"
"No, you go alone. You appear with the head, on the charger, hold it up so they can see it, then you come down the stairs."