If I am anywhere near here when your play is enacted, I shall make it a point to come and see it." Shaking hands warmly with Miss Tebbs and bowing to the admiring girls, Mr.Southard hurriedly departed, leaving his audience devoured with curiosity as to the chosen ones.
Anne stood perfectly still, looking rather dazed.

The unexpected had happened.

She was to have not only a part, but the best part, at that.
The girls gathered eagerly about her, congratulating her on her success, but she was too overcome to thank them, and smiled at them through a mist of tears.
"Look at Eleanor," whispered Nora to Grace.

"She's so angry she can't see straight.

She must have wanted to play Rosalind herself.