FELICIA started off to the play not very happy, but she was familiar with that feeling, only sometimes she was more unhappy than at others.

Her feeling expressed itself tonight by a withdrawal into herself.

When the company was seated in the box and the curtain had gone up Felicia was back of the others and remained for the evening by herself.

Mrs.Delano, as chaperon for half a dozen young ladies, understood Felicia well enough to know that she was "queer," as Rose so often said, and she made no attempt to draw her out of her corner.

And so the girl really experienced that night by herself one of the feelings that added to the momentum that was increasing the coming on of her great crisis.
The play was an English melodrama, full of startling situations, realistic scenery and unexpected climaxes.