Crossword-Solution: ALFONSINE 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Barons and princes not seldom offered an arm to the amiable Madame Antoinette to escort her to the supper-room, or begged of the charming Miss Alfonsine the pleasure of a dance.

Finally, at nine o'clock in the evening, his anxiety for Alfonsine's safety impelled him to seek her.

The young man suffered himself to be swept along by the crowd until Alfonsine, catching sight of him, gave a cry of joy, rushed forward, threw her arms about his neck, kissed him, and sank on his breast, exclaiming: "Oh, my friend, what a joyful occasion!" and she kissed him again, before all the people and before her mother.

Alfonsine waved her handkerchief in her enthusiasm, but her companion was suddenly seized with a mysterious fear and dread.

What premonition was it that seemed to whisper in his ear the true significance of that elevated platform on which his brother stood? When the two had returned from their stroll, weary with walking the streets, and Jenő had been dismissed with a good-night kiss, Alfonsine, at last alone with her mother, threw her hat with its tricoloured ribbons into a corner and sank exhausted upon a sofa.