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The gentry at the ball spiraled into panic What if it was not just the Te? What if their own servants were broken? Who would an to have hysterics Even a few gentleht nerves

Sophronia, Di participated briefly in the confusion After all, they also had never seen anything like it But it only took thee of the situation Such a crisis as this, mass mechanical revolt of an inco enough for the necessary, they left the ball and azebo

The boys were already there Soap had found a nue wicker picnic baskets and stuffed them with food filched fro a collection ofoff to the side with these itehy froazebo

While Dimity went to point out how it had been incorporated, Sophronia dashed off with Sidheag to find Roger He er proved a as Sophronia took the blame He hooked up a donkey to the heliu never to use it for the party display

Sophronia gave him a sardonic look

"This reat waste"

"My thoughts exactly, Roger"

They returned with donkey and heliuazebo with a crash Fortunately, it survived intact Felix and Soap righted it and jumped inside to throw out the four balloons While they wrestled the sail and er unrolled the balloons and began to fill theh Sophronia kept glancing back to the house, where the shifting lights were her only clue that all was still chaos in the ballrooed up the basket so that it rose sedately into the air, shedding decorative bits of gazebo in its wake Felix and Soap ed to raise the center sail It was a pity they disliked each other so intensely, for it was clear that they made an efficient tea cli skirts and with no ladder Sophronia swung Buer tossed in the sack of clothes

"Everyone good to go?" Sophronia asked, wondering what they were forgetting

Four faces peeked over the edge, nodding Soap and Felix extended their ar went to the other side of the gondola against the lean

The balloons caught a breeze and they bobbed up a bit

Sophronia held up her hands to be lifted inside

"What in heaven’s na on here?" caic around the side of Mumsy’s rhododendrons

"Cut us free, Pillover!" yelled Sophronia, dangling off the side Felix had both his hands wrapped around one of her wrists and Soap the other

"Sophronia Angelina Teazebo now?"

Pillover unlashed the airdinghy froazebo columns

It lifted sedately upward

"Wait," cried Petunia, "come back here this instant! You can’t just drift off with a duke’s son That’s not sporting!"

Felix and Soap hauled Sophronia into the gondola She blessed the split skirt of her costu over and land on her feet inside She turned to look back at her sister