Odours of oil and shoddy, and all such things as characterised the town, grew more pungent under the heavy shower.

On reaching the stage-door, Clara found two or three of her companions just within; the sudden departure of Miss Walcott had become known to everyone, and at this moment Mr.
Peel was holding a council, to which, as the doorkeeper testified, Miss Danver had been summoned.
The manager decided to make no public announcement of what had happened before the hour came for drawing up the curtain.

A scrappy rehearsal for the benefit of Grace Danver and the two or three other ladies who were affected by the necessary rearrangement went on until the last possible moment, then Mr.Peel presented himself before the drop and made a little speech.

The gallery was fall of mill-hands; in the pit was a sprinkling of people; the circles and boxes presented half a dozen occupants.

'Sudden domestic calamity.