"The feast is held in the walled-in garden, which is lit with colored lanterns.  In the very centre of the garden is a grass sward, the greenest grass you ever saw, father, and, oh, so smooth--as smooth as velvet, and on this grass, lit with fairy lamps, the girls dance all kinds of stately, wonderful, old-fashioned dances, and the neighbors sit round and watch, and then at the end we all go into the house, into the great oak hall in the middle, and Mrs. Clavering gives the prizes to the lucky girls.