five o’clock in the morning
As for the other guests , the peerage was gutted . The Dictator himself was there , and , the moment her royal highness had retired , Mrs. Guy Flouncey devoted herself to the hero . All the great ladies , all the ambassadors , all the beauties , a full chapter of the Garter , a chorus among the ` best men ' that it was without doubt the ` best ball ' of the year , happy Mrs. Guy Flouncey ! She threw a glance at her swing-glass while Mr. Guy Flouncey , who ` had not had time to get anything the whole evening , ' was eating some supper on a tray in her dressing-room at five o'clock in the morning , and said , ` We have done it at last , my love ! ' She was right ; and from that moment Mrs. Guy Flouncey was asked to all the great houses , and became a lady of the most unexceptionable _ ton _ . But all this time we are forgetting her _ déjeûner _ , and that Tancred is winding his way through the garden lanes of Fulham to reach Craven Cottage . _ The Coningsbys _ THE day was brilliant : music , sunshine , ravishing bonnets , little parasols that looked like large butterflies .