Every one else was seated, but no one paid any attention to the white-faced girl stumbling half-blindly down the aisle next the farthest wall.

So she went on to the very end facing the stage.

No one moved, and she could not summon courage to crowd past others to several empty seats she saw.

At the end of the aisle she paused in desperation, while she stared back at the whole forest of faces most of which were now turned upon her.
In a flash came the full realization of her scanty dress, her pitiful little hat and ribbon, her big, heavy shoes, her ignorance of where to go or what to do; and from a sickening wave which crept over her, she felt she was going to become very ill.

Then out of the mass she saw a pair of big, brown boy eyes, three seats from her, and there was a message in them.