Beresford was sitting at my feet,
thinking me a _debutante_, and staring soulfully into my very
heart? Is it but a matter of minutes since Leila found us there,
and in a manner which revealed the true feeling she has for me,
ordered me to go upstairs and take off Maidie Mackenzie's gown?
(Yes, it was not Leila's after all. I had forgotten that
Maidie had taken her room. And except for pulling it somewhat at
the waste, I am sure I did not hurt the old thing.)
I shall now go to bed and dream. Of which one I know not.
My heart is full. Romanse has come at last into my dull and
dreary life. Below, the revelers have gone. The flowers hang
their herbacious heads. The music has flowed away into the river
of the past. I am alone with my Heart.
JANUARY 14TH. How complacated my Life grows, Dear Dairy!
How full and yet how incomplete! How everything begins and
nothing ends!
_He_ is in town.
I discovered it at breakfast. I knew I was in for it, and
I got down early, counting on mother breakfasting in bed. I
would have felt better if father had been at home, because he
understands somwhat the way They keep me down.
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