For the first time she really appreciated him and respected him, and was grateful to him for what he had taught her to do.
Her mood changed abruptly when the Jean picture ended.

The music changed to the strain that had filled the great place when she entered, nearly an hour before.

Jean sat up straight again and waited, alert, impatient, anxious to miss no smallest part of that picture which had startled her so when she had first looked at the screen.

If the thing was true which she half believed--if it were true! So she stared with narrowed lids, intent, watchful, her whole mind concentrated upon what she should presently see.
"Warring Mexico!" That was the name of it; a Lubin special release, of the kind technically called "educational." Jean held her breath, waiting for the scene that might mean so much to her.

There: this must be it, she thought with a flush of inner excitement.