At three o’clock they went to their rooms to rest, as Mrs. Taft had requested. But once in their suite, Mandie and Celia couldn’t rest they were so excited about the dinner party that night. Mandie had already decided to wear her beautiful blue silk dress and it was hanging ready. And Celia would be putting on her white silk dress, with dainty blue and pink flowers embroidered around the hem. The girls flopped on the big bed because they had promised Mrs. Taft to rest. Snowball roamed about the rooms. They kept hearing carriages arriving below, but their rooms were on an end of the castle and their windows only offered a view of the driveway as it wound around out of sight. “I’ve counted ten carriages already!” Mandie exclaimed as they watched still another vehicle wind around the castle. “Do you think all these people are going to spend the night here?” “Probably,” Celia said. “But then when you think about it, this castle must have an awful lot of bedrooms.” “Yes, and I suppose rich people over here in Europe have overnight guests by the dozens,”
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