Your part of Celia is very well suited to you, and you can win plenty of applause playing it.

You must understand, however, that once having given out a part, I should not attempt to take it from the girl I had given it to simply because some other girl desired it.

That would be both unfair and unjust.

The only thing I could promise you would be to allow you to understudy Rosalind in case anything happened to Miss Pierson.

Would you care to understudy the part ?" Eleanor was silent for a moment.