CHAPTER XI

IN WHICH DICKIE GOES TO THE END OF THE WORLD AND LOOKS OVER THE WALL The opera box, which Richard Calmady had rented along with the Villa Vallorbes, was fifth from the stage on the third tier, to the right of the vast horseshoe. Thus situated, it commanded a very comprehensive view of the interior of the house. The _parterre_--its somewhat comfortless seats, rising as on iron stilts, as they recede, row by row, from the proscenium--was packed. While, since the aristocratic world had not yet left town, the boxes--pi…