I can't realize that I have ever been away from Father." "It does seem a long time since our senior year in high school," agreed Grace musingly.

"Good gracious, Eleanor, the Glee Club are waiting for the signal to go on while we stand here reminiscing!" Grace hurried to the wing where one of the pages stood patiently holding the Glee Club poster, and signaled to the page on the opposite side.

An instant later the singers had filed on the stage for their opening song.
As the show progressed the audience became more enthusiastic and clamored loudly for encores.

Elfreda's imitations provoked continuous laughter, and dainty Arline Thayer, looking not more than seven years old, was a delightful success from her first babyish lisp.

Her song of the goblin man who stole little children to work for him in his underground cellar, with its catchy chorus of "Run away, you little children," was immediately adopted by Overton, and when later it was noised about that Ruth had written the words while Arline had composed the music, both girls were later rushed by the Dramatic Club and made members, an honor to which unassuming Ruth had some difficulty in becoming accustomed.
Anne's "Enoch Arden," to Eleanor's piano accompaniment, met with an ovation.