Maggie startled all her friends by making one request. Might they
postpone the acting of The Princess until the middle of the following
term?"
"I cannot do it justice now," she said. "I cannot throw my heart and
soul into my part. If you act the play now you must allow me to
withdraw."
The other girls, Constance Field in particular, were astonished. They
even felt resentful. All arrangements had been made for this special
play. Maggie was to be the Princess herself; no one could possibly
take her place. It was most unreasonable of her to withdraw now.
But it was one of the facts well known at St. Benet's that,
fascinating as Miss Oliphant was, she was also unreasonable. On
certain occasions she could even be disobliging. In short, when Maggie
"took the bit between her teeth," to employ an old metaphor, she could
neither be led nor driven. After a great deal of heated discussion and
indignant words, she had her will. The play was deferred till the
following term, and one or two slight comedies, which had been acted
before, were revived in a hurry to take its place.
CHAPTER XXII
A BLACK SATIN JACKET
VERY active preparations were being made in a certain rather humble
little cottage in the country for the heroine's return.
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