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He gave "our friends" a
pleasant welcome, and after apologizing for their absence, said that at
least, "like the little wife in the children's play, 'We too have not
been idle,' for we bring you a new friend and introduce her to you
to-night."
Then Peter rose, and told the host: "Your friends have been grieved at
your long withdrawal from them, as the happy faces and welcome we tender
you this evening, show. We feared that the fascination of European art,
with its beauty and ease and finish, had come to over-weigh the love of
American nature, despite its life and strength and freshness; that we
had lost you for all time. But to-night we can hardly regret even this
long interlude, if to that circumstance we owe the happiest and most
charming combination of American nature and European art--Miss D'Alloi."
Then there was applause, and a drinking of Miss D'Alloi's health, and
the ladies passed out of the room--to enjoy themselves, be it
understood, leaving the men in the gloomy, quarrelsome frame of mind it
always does.


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