Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 37: April, 1934

Back in the glorious and obscure past, an ancestress to the Dancey Clan had served as maid-in-wait ing to a Queen. That this was the unadulterated truth and not the figment of a fancifuhdream, was borne out by a huge chest, over ¿owing with silk and satin and velvet gowns - musty and mil dewed and brittle with age. Mar cia and Em spent many happy hours in the Dancey attic, trying on, dancing, or planning alter ations that Em and her leisure-lov ing mother never found time to undertake.

Marcia was thinking of this as she slipped through the pomegran ate hedge - aglow with rosy-tinted fruit, gleaming like little golden lanterns through the varnished green leaves. Late roses, struggling for one more day of fragrant su premacy, rioted amongst young ailanthus shoots that screened the dilapidated old house from the street.

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