human
There wasn't a flaw in it. The idea is unique, the costuming fine and the solo work was absolutely superb. You must have worked hard. It will be something for all the classes to talk about for years to come. Just do as well as you did at this rehearsal, and you will find yourselves covered with glory, if you do not attempt anything else in your entire college course.
gpt
It is all due to our president, said one of the group who surrounded Professor Newton.
human
It was her idea in the first place; she adapted the extravaganza to our class, and it is she who has made us work so hard at it.
gpt
You have every reason to be proud of your work, Miss Hamilton,
human
I am tremendously proud of the girls, Professor Newton. Of course, I could have done nothing at all if they had not been so willing.
gpt
I am only afraid of Ada Willing's last solo.
human
But why, Miss Hamilton? That is one of the best things in the entire entertainment. It is so full of good-natured hits at the other classes and the faculty. It is sheer, pure fun; everyone will enjoy it, and Miss Willing has a magnificent voice.
gpt
But it is so uncertain. That solo should be sung well, for it is the most unique thing that we have. Sometimes Miss Willing does it superbly, and sometimes she does it miserably. Once or twice she has actually forgotten the opening words, they are pure nonsense, you know, and not very easy to remember, if a person be nervous.
human
Don't worry about it, Professor Newton advised kindly.
gpt
I am sure you will come out all right this evening. You should rest the balance of the day.
human
I want to go out for a little while, Professor Newton; then I shall surely take your advice.
gpt
I would be willing to wager a peanut that our president has gone out merely to walk up Murray's lane. She goes there every single day at this hour.
human
I don't believe it is for any wrong purpose, Beth. The lane is within the limits that we are allowed to go. Some way I have faith in Miss Hamilton.
gpt
I am not saying that I have not. But certainly she is secretive. Of course, that is no sin, as we decided long ago; at the same time one cannot help speculating about her, more or less.
human
I have watched her rather closely ever since Thanksgiving, and she really has never said a word in my hearing that was untrue or false. Last week, in Miss Dunbar's room, the subject of wealth and aristocracy came up in some way. Miss Hamilton was appealed to. I do not think you were present, but Miss Dunbar asked if Miss Hamilton did not consider good breeding and refinement inseparable from wealth and family position.
gpt
What a snob she is.
human
We all know that. I was rather curious to hear what our president would say. She did not say much. She is like Grant. She knows the wisdom of silence. She told Miss Dunbar that she did not agree with her at all. Then she made the first personal remark that I ever heard her make. She said that as far as she was concerned, she had no wealth, and while she was proud of her family, herself, she had no idea that Ward McAllister would ever have admitted them to his sacred list of four hundred.
gpt
Good for her. She told the truth, and yet the girls did not realize just how true it was, I presume. She has an air about her that seems to betoken wealth and distinction. How misleading appearances are.
human
Yes, aren't they? Well, the facts will be sure to come out some day, for this world is small, after all, and what we learned, others will be sure to learn, too. There is no harm at all in it, but Miss Dunbar and that set of girls who fawn so around her, would never speak to her again. You'll see.
gpt
I don't like to think that you are a true prophet, Dolly, for the sake of our sex. Why should we be more ungenerous to Margaret Hamilton than the Harvard boys are to Mr. Steele?
human
There is no reason at all why we should be, and if the test ever comes, I, for one, shall stand by her.
gpt
And I, too, said Beth.
human
Though I hope the necessity will never arise.