At last a lady takes her seat at the piano, then comes an eager rush of gentlemen into the room, and partners are taken for cotillons,large, double, very double cotillons, here called contradanças.

No brilliant cotillon ends before 8 A.M.; then there is breakfast and driving home by daylight at ten o'clock.

One of the dances was an old-fashioned cotillon, and one of the figures, the "coquette," brought every one, in turn, before me.