Emma Dean and Arline escorted her to the platform.
"I thank Miss West for the honor she has done me, and I thank all of you," she said with a sweet seriousness that went straight to her hearers' hearts.

"Although I am afraid I can't lay claim to the splendid qualities Miss West has attributed to me, the knowledge that she has thought me worthy is doubly dear." Then Grace hurried to her place very near to tears, while Miriam affectionately pressed her arm on one side and Anne, on the other, slipped her hand into that of her friend, and thus the three listened to Elfreda's speech.
"That's about the most satisfactory general meeting I ever attended," remarked Emma Dean in Miriam's ear as they stepped outside to the campus, where groups of girls had halted with a view to hailing their respective friends as they passed.
"I was never more astonished in my life," returned Miriam, in guarded tones.

"As for Elfreda, she can't believe that she won second honors.
She insists there must have been a mistake." "It was a general all-around surprise, I believe," confided Emma.

"I never dreamed that Kathleen West entertained any such feeling for Grace, and I don't imagine any one else did, either.

When is the honor prize to be presented to her ?" "On the night of the play.