CHAPTER XII

THE CONCERT “What energy those children have shown!” exclaimed Thekla Anderssen as she took her seat beside Jean Stewart. “It’s a mercy it’s broken out in this way!” replied Jean. “Really, there’s so much trouble with the Fifth nowadays, one is positively in dread of anything else happening.” As she spoke, she glanced across the room, where her own sister, Marjorie, was sitting with Dorothy Howell beside her. Just behind the Sixth, Phillis English and Muriel Wilcox were talking with their heads close together. It w…