They had eagerly scanned the house before the concert began, but had failed to locate Miss Nevin and Eleanor's father.
"I'm going out in the audience and see if I can find them," Grace had whispered to Anne during Nora's song, as they stood in the wing on the opposite side from Jessica and Eleanor.
Anne had nodded silently, her attention focused upon Nora, whose singing always delighted her, and Grace, slipping quietly down to the door that led into the hall, made her way toward the back rows of seats just in time to witness Guido Savelli's emotion at first sight of his daughter.
Back to Anne she sped with her news, and the two friends held a quiet little jubilee of their own over the success of their plot.
There was a round of applause when "Enoch Arden" was announced.

Eleanor took her place at the piano while Anne stepped forward and began the pathetic tale to the subdued strains of the music that Eleanor had fitted to it.
Anne's beautiful voice rose and fell with wonderful expression, while the music served to accentuate every word that she uttered.

Her audience sat practically spell bound, and when she uttered poor Enoch's death cry, "A sail! A sail! I am saved!" there were many wet eyes throughout the assemblage.

She paused for a second before delivering the three concluding lines, and Eleanor ended on the piano with a throbbing minor chord.
There was absolute silence as the performers made their exit.

Then a perfect storm of enthusiasm burst forth.