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The day arrived when Augusta was to go to the Cinderella dance at the Asprays'. All her plans were made. She was to go unknown to her family. She was to return equally unknown. As far as she was concerned, not a single member of the Richmond family was ever to discover this escapade.
How delicious the whole thing sounded! How she would enjoy herself! She was to be daring and disobedient: she was to defy all the laws which ruled her life. She was to slip away under cover of the darkness, and come back again in the small hours, and no one was to know. She was to wear her prettiest dress, and dance, and be merry; and no one was to find out. And all the time she would pose as the best of girls -- the noblest member of Captain Richmond's battalion -- the soldier who on the great day of the prize-giving would be presented with the Royal Cross.