"You are always so very kind.

But I prefer to keep the matter in my own hands." "You realise the difficulty of making the voice carry in a place of that size unless you can stand and face the audience ?" Garth Dalmain spoke anxiously.

Jane was a special friend of his, and he had a man's dislike of the idea of his chum failing in anything, publicly.
The same quiet smile dawned in Jane's eyes and passed to her lips as when she had realised that her aunt meant her to volunteer in Velma's place.

She glanced around.

Most of the party had wandered off in twos and threes, some to the house, others back to the river.