P's and Q's Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. QUADRILLES. Monday afternoons were spent at the dancing school, and as Miss Lillywhite had a bad cold, Elspeth undertook to take Paulina and Ali... more »ne to the Assein - lily Room, which was hired for the weekly lessons. It was Elspeth's first time of going, and Aline was much delighted, only wishing her dear Persis was going too, and pouring out an immense quantity of information,—rather more, perhaps, than Paulina wished. "Do you know, Elsie, we are the only pupils that come in our own carriage, except the Rays." " Because we live the farthest off," suggested Elspeth. " Oh no, the Browns live further, and come in by train. They haven't carriages to come in." " Very likely not," said Elspeth; " but it is very silly to care about that, Aline. It is manners, not carriages, that make man, or woman either." " I wonder," pursued Paulina, " whether the Eays will be there. That little Tom is so rough and horrid !" " I didn't know you had boys." " Oh yes. Tom Eay is almost a baby, only seven years old; and Cecil Wharton goes, and two or three more little fellows like that," said Aline very proudly, being herself nine; " besides Percy Grafton." ' "Percy Grafton!" exclaimed Elspeth; "why, he is almost a man." " Quite," said Aline. And oh, he does wear such lovely ties. And he has one pin with a coral death's- head on the top, and another with a dear little dog. And I wonder if he'll have his primrose-coloured gloves this time. I like them best, but Paula likes his pale green ones,—don't you, Paula?" " No, I like his pale lavender, only he split them all across," said Paulina. " And his scents. He has sometimes millefleurs, and sometimes eau de cologne, and something else Ican't remember," said Aline. "I wonder who he'll dance with." " Whom, if ...« less