"One moment," I said, and I took it up and looked at the back of it. Then I looked at the back of my own ace of clubs. Then I looked at the front of it, and swore very softly, and played it. "I'm very sorry," I began at the end of the game, "but----" "Haven't we met before?" said Maud, with a smile. I looked at her hard. "By Jove! Ethel!" I cried. "My name's Millicent," said Maud, "and seeing that we met for the first time a few hours ago----" "Yes, you were my first partner, 'Ethel.'" "I'm sorry. Who is Ethel?" "I beg your pardon," I apologised. "But I always call my first partner at progressive bridge Ethel. It's a sort of hobby with me." "I see," said Maud--I mean Ethel. Well, I suppose I must call her Millicent now. Though I had never seen her before, and shall never see her again, she will always be Millicent to me. DRESSING UP I. AT A PAGEANT Our episode is the tenth and last and (I may add unofficially) the most important. The period of it is 1750. In order to lead up to it properly it has been found necessary to start the first episode at 53 B.C. This gives the audience time to get hungry for us. "At last!" they say, when we come on, "this _is_ the end, Maria." The Duchess of Kirkcudbright (N.B.) says that they don't say that at all. They say, "Why, Henry, it's 1750! I had no idea. How the time flies when you are enjoying yourself. We _must_ stay to the end; a few minutes won't make any difference now, and it's only cold mutton." I must explain that it is the Duchess of Kirkcudbright (N.B.)--and _do_ remember the "N.B.," because she is very particular about it--who in this episode condescends to dance a minuet with me: that stately old measure (if you don't trip over the sand-hill opposite Block D.) which so delighted our forefathers. It is a very sad thing, but though the whole pageant, as I have explained, hinges upon us, yet our names and description do not appear upon the programme. We are put down briefly, and I think libellously, as "Revellers." However, we learnt that we were really people of some position--right in the smart set, by all accounts; so I decided to be Lord Tunbridge Wells, and my partner the Duchess of Kirkcudbright (N.B.). That is just like her--to be a whole county, when I am only a watering-place.