Then the applause reached the degree of enthusiastic madness which she desired; even Loni clapped his hands from the steeple window.

She had never seen him do this to any of the company.

Yes, she must have accomplished her purpose well; but she would show him and the others something still more wonderful.

What she had just done was capable of many additional feats; she had tried it.
With fluttering hands and pulses she instantly loosed from her panting bosom and her hips the garland of roses and leaves twined about the upper portion of her body, and swung it around her in graceful curves as she knelt and rose on the rope.
She had often jumped rope on the low rope, turning completely around so that she faced the other way.

To repeat this performance on the one stretched to the steeple would certainly not be expected from her or from any other.