When she had finished she handed the book back with an air of studied indifference she was far from feeling.

She had decided in her own mind that Rosalind was the part best suited to her, and felt that the honor now lay between herself and Grace.

No other girls, with the exception of Nora, had been allowed to read as much of any scene as they two had been requested to read.
But Eleanor had reckoned without her host, for there was one girl who had not as yet come to the front.

The girl was Anne Pierson, who in some mysterious manner had been all but overlooked, until Miss Tebbs spied her standing between Grace and Nora.
"Can you spare us a moment more, Mr.Southard ?" said Miss Tebbs to the actor, who was preparing to leave.

"You have almost missed hearing one of my best girls.