its throng of lookers-on, scarcely shed any light upon her anxious and fearful heart; she only felt that to-night the crowd at the theater would be noisier and more dense, her duty only more repulsive to her—finally, that all this bustle and confusion was to terminate in a ball, at which she was to pass
THE RALEIGH TAVERN IN OLD WILLIAMSBURG, AND ITS FAMOUS APOLLO ROOM
This historic tavern, mentioned constantly in John Esten Cooke's "The Virginia Comedians," was built before 1735 and stood until it was burned in 1859. The Apollo was the room of the tavern used for balls, banquets, political and other gatherings. Few apartments have witnessed as many scenes of brilliant festivity and political excitement
through a fiery ordeal of frowns and comments, even through worse, perhaps more dreadful, trials. She had not dared that morning, when her father told her he should expect her to keep her promise and accompany the young man after the theater to the ball—the poor girl had not dared to speak of her secret,
