In Parisian society you will almost always find two very different evenings in the balls and social affairs. First, the official evening, at which all the invited guests are present--a gay world bored with itself and others. Each person poses for his neighbor. The majority of the young women have come there to meet only one person. When each is satisfied that she is the handsomest woman present in the eyes of that person, and that his opinion is probably shared by some others, she is ready to leave--after the exchange of a few trivial speeches, such as “Shall you go early to La Crampade?”--“Madame de Portenduère sang very well, I think.”--“Who is that little woman over there, weighted down w…
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