The children demanded her daily.
"I do hope the gate receipts will be more than the expenses,"
Clarence said hopefully in a resting-space. "The last time I got up
anything like this we cleared just two dollars. We'd formally
dedicated it to a Home for the Aged, in the blessed hope that the
directresses would sell tickets enough to fill the hall. But they
didn't. They took our two dollars away from us just the same. I
always begrudged them that two-spot."
"If you have the girls' school in it that can't happen," Gail
reminded him. "They're little demons at ticket-selling."
So next day Phyllis took Joy with her, and also the De Guenthers as
an evidence of deep respectability, and they drove over to the
school, and actually secured the co-operation of the girls and their
teachers. The thing was being so hurried through, as amateur
theatricals should be to go well, that the whole thing would be over
in two and a half weeks more. As Phyllis was personally very much
liked by the principal, there was very little trouble made about it.
Indeed, the teachers planned to take notes and borrow costumes, and
give the thing themselves as a commencement entertainment the next
June, if it proved possible.
The boys were rather harder to get, but here, too, they succeeded,
finally. And "Iolanthe" went prosperously on.
In a couple more days Phyllis, who really could get almost anything
she wanted from almost anybody, if she took the trouble, coaxed Joy
back from Mrs.
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