Then, if it didn't win the prize, you'd never know and you wouldn't feel badly over it, because the stories that failed were not to be returned, and if it did you'd have such a delightful surprise." Diana was not the most discerning of mortals, but just at this moment it struck her that Anne was not looking exactly overjoyed.

The surprise was there, beyond doubt--but where was the delight?
"Why, Anne, you don't seem a bit pleased!" she exclaimed.
Anne instantly manufactured a smile and put it on.
"Of course I couldn't be anything but pleased over your unselfish wish to give me pleasure," she said slowly.

"But you know--I'm so amazed--I can't realize it--and I don't understand.

There wasn't a word in my story about--about--" Anne choked a little over the word--"baking powder." "Oh, _I_ put that in," said Diana, reassured.

"It was as easy as wink--and of course my experience in our old Story Club helped me.