Would Alexander dare to wink this time, she wondered?
And then she remembered, to her great joy, that he could not; because his face would be in full view of the people behind the scenes in the library.
The little brown spinning-wheel was brought on the platform; a heap of flax at which Priscilla is supposed to have been working, was piled together in front of it; and she and Alexander took their places.

The curtain was drawn aside, and a cry of pleasure from the company testified to the picturesque prettiness of the representation.

It was according to the fact, that Priscilla should be looking in John Alden's face; it was just at the moment when she is supposed to be rebuking him for bringing to her his friend's suit and petition.

Thinking herself safe, and wishing to have the picture as good as possible, Daisy had ventured to direct her eyes upon the face of Alexander Fish, who personified the Puritan suitor.

To her horror, Alexander, wholly untouched by the poetry of the occasion and unawed by its hazards, dared to execute a succession of most barefaced and disagreeable winks right at Priscilla's eyes.