Among the alumnæ, who knew her character and ability and remembered her superb classroom work, Miss Shafer’s appointment was received with genuine satisfaction.

From twenty years old and upward.

The Ballets Russes had currently lost its two main attractions — Karsavina, who, despite her fanfared return, was refusing to leave her young son for extended tours of Europe; and, far more ruinously, Massine.

The mokoro owner I hired happily piled us all into a single, rather small craft and we set off over a flooded meadow, covered with barely half a metre of water.