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A month had elapsed, and Shirani was as full and as gay as Miss Paske had predicted -- there were dinners, dances, balls, theatricals, and picnics.
Visitors had shaken down into sets, and discovered whom they liked and whom they did not like. In a short hill season there is no time to waste on long-drawn-out overtures to acquaintance; besides, in India, society changes so rapidly, and has so many mutual friends -- the result of so many different moves -- that people know each other as intimately in six months as they would in six years in England. There were "sets" in Shirani, though not aggressively defined: the acting and musical set, which numbered as stars Miss Paske and Mr. Joy; also Captain Dashwood, of the Dappled Hussars; Mrs. Rolland, who had once been a matchless actress, but was now both deaf and quarrelsome; and many other lesser lights.