. Eight journeys abroad. p of tea in the garden of the same Hotel before returningto town hot and tired. The night before we went to the Grand Opera and saw areally magnificent performance of Samson and Delilah withAlvarez as Samson and Mme. Heglou as Delilah. The latterhad a superb contralto voice and was also beautiful. Themusic is lovely and well interpreted by a very large orchestra—the chorus was perfect and mise-en-scene faultless. Withall that a superb ballet which gave a sort of pantomime balletafter the Opera and you can imagine how fine it 593 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD Two Hindoo
. Eight journeys abroad. p of tea in the garden of the same Hotel before returningto town hot and tired. The night before we went to the Grand Opera and saw areally magnificent performance of Samson and Delilah withAlvarez as Samson and Mme. Heglou as Delilah. The latterhad a superb contralto voice and was also beautiful. Themusic is lovely and well interpreted by a very large orchestra—the chorus was perfect and mise-en-scene faultless. Withall that a superb ballet which gave a sort of pantomime balletafter the Opera and you can imagine how fine it 593 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD Two Hindoo women in most gorgeous gold embroideredveils and clothes sat near us. We walked out between theacts so Laura could see the house and had some orangeadesand cake between the Opera and Ballet, arriving home afterone oclock. You see how independent we are. The night before we had seen the Cid at the Fran^aisbeautifully acted, but we were glad to stay in last morning we made a good start and went to St. Sulpice,. AVENUE DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE, PARIS where Widor is the organist and heard magnificent playing ofreal church music, a fugue of Bachs played to service we walked over to the Luxembourg Gallery andsaw its contents, then I stopped at the Madeleine to let Laurawalk through it and then home. We fixed up a bit and went to Mrs. Hazards to lunchwhere her sister Mrs. Howe is staying. Her son is in theLatin Quarter with a young Mr. Tilson who is studying theorgan with Widor and a young artist Mr. Cobb who were all 594 FRANCE at lunch, as well as Mrs. McKinley and her niece Miss Filley,so we had a very gay lunch. I was glad for Laura to meetsome young people. I had a carriage come for us to drive to the Bois but noneof the party could go along so we went alone, and as gave us tickets for the Puteaux Club, Isle de Puteaux,we drove there at once, passing through Neuilly. The Put-eaux Club is the swellest in Paris and as on Sunday the otherresorts a
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