And we shall all be there to see your _Katherine_. I had thought of
cutting the performance for a rather important address, but nothing
would induce me to miss my sister as the _Shrew_."
Roberta laughed. "Nobody will question my fitness for the part, I fear.
Well, if I teach expression, in a girls' school, I must take the
consequences, and be willing to express anything that comes along."
If Roberta had expected any sympathy from her family in the exigency of
the hour, she was disappointed. Instead of condoling with her, the
breakfast-table hearers of the news, next morning, were able only to
congratulate themselves upon the augmented interest the school play
would now have for Roberta's friends, confident that the presence of one
clever actress of maturer powers would compensate for much
amateurishness in the others. Ruth, young devotee of her sister, was
delighted beyond measure with the prospect, and joyfully spent the day
taking necessary stitches in the apparel Roberta was to wear,
considerable alteration being necessary to adapt the garments intended
for the slim and girlish _Katherine_ of Ethel Revell's proportions to
the more perfectly rounded lines of her teacher.
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