CHAPTER IV

And instead of 'dearest Miss,' Jewel, honey, sweetheart, bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her cockatrice and siren.--C. LAMB

The ladies of the house were going to a ball, and were in full costume: Eloisa a study for the Arabian Nights, and Lucilla in an azure gossamer-like texture surrounding her like a cloud, turquoises on her arms, and blue and silver ribbons mingled with her blonde tresses.

Very like the clergyman's wife!

O sage Honor, were you not provoked with yourself for being so old as to regard that bewitching sprite, and marvel whence comes the cost of those robes of the woof of Faerie?

Let Oberon pay Titania's bills.

That must depend on who Oberon is to be.

Phoebe, to whom a doubt on that score would have appeared high treason, nevertheless hated the presence of Mr. Calthorp as much as she could hate anything, and was in restless anxiety as to Titania's behaviour. She herself had no cause to complain, for she was at once singled out and led away from Miss Charlecote, to be shown some photographic performances, in which Lucy and her cousin had been dabbling.

'There, that horrid monster is Owen--he never will come out respectable. Mr. Prendergast, he is better, because you don't see his face. There's our school, Edna Murrell and all; I flatter myself that _is_ a work of art; only this little wretch fidgeted, and muddled himself.'

'Is that the mistress? She does not look like one.'

'Not like Sally Page? No; she would bewilder the Hiltonbury mind. I mean you to see her; I would not miss the shock to Honor. No, don't show it to her! I won't have any preparation.'

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Hwere were the ladies of the house going?
2. who hated the presence of Mr. Calthorp?
3. what was she led away from Miss charlecote to be shown?
4. Were the ladies dressed in costume for the ball?
5. Who was dressed like a person in a story from Arabian nights?
6. Was the other dressed like a clergymans wife?
7. who was mentioned to pay Titania's bills?
8. Who's behaviour did Phoebe have anxiety about?
9. How is Owen described in the story?
10. Was it thought he would come out respectable?
1. to a ball
2. Phoebe
3. photographic performances
4. yes
5. Eloisa
6. yes
7. Oberon
8. Titania's
9. horrid monster
10. no