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At last all are off, infinite relief registered on all sides. At the High
School all damsels must again trudge through ankle-deep snow, before they
Hock into the main hall.
A sole bystander politely volunteers:— “ The ticket man has not yet
arrived. You’ll have to wait.
d’he maidens flock to examine posters at close range. A lone usher
appears, and is eagerly hailed.
“ Could we take our seats? We know Avhich they are.
“ 1 am sorry,— the hall is not yet opened or even lighted.”
“We’ll have to wait patiently, girls. Please keep together on the
right, so that you will not block the traffic when there is any.” “ Oh, Dame Xernesis! Look what happeneci! “Amaryllis! I told you to stay here.”
“ But 1 just looked at the picture and it fell down. “Where’s the tack?”
“ I don’t knovc; it rolled away.”
After vain attempts at replacing it, the dame props the refractory poster against the wall.
Chorus of audible stage whispers:
“ H ere’s the ticket man. Dame Nemesis.
Whereupon the good lady herds her charges up to the two front rows
on the right. She negotiates over stubs with the usher, while gentle Cassiopeia quavers:
ii
down there.”
“ Cassandra, you promised to sit next to me.”
iiI can’t because Pm next to Persephone.” “ But the other side?”
“ Well, 1 want to be on the aisle so I can see everything before it happens.”
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“How mean! I hate this. Well, Pll just sit right here in the row behind. It’s on the aisle too, and even better.”
“Girls! Cassandra! Persephone! We do not have the first four seats in this second roAV. M oa'C doAvn.”
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Oh, you might know we’d have to sit way up here.
“ Pm going to sit on this end Avith Euridyce. You can’t see a thing
You can’t do that, because I’m here,” Atalanta firmly interrupts; “ I got here first for once, and I intend to stay.”