Juliet at the Party
Sat,—/ failed to observe Mr. Devine's back-handed compliment to my hearing, and the accompanying aspersions upon my vision, until my friends began to felicitate me upon the one and commiserate with me upon the other. I do remember that to my eyes, Juliet seemed dressed in a bluish or greenish black, and therefore not properly gowned for a funeral, as I suggested. But she still seems to me to have been even more improperly dressed for an evening party at which her engagement was to be announced. On such an occasion a girl of fourteen, who must at all costs stand out from the rest of the women on the stage, might have been dressed all in white—unless " blue-green " or "indigo " was in fact the colour proper to betrothals in mediaeval Italy.—Yours
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