Everybody felt that he had said exactly the right things, and Principals, mistresses, parents, and pupils past or present were wreathed in smiles.

These opening ceremonies did not take very long, and the concert followed immediately.
Marjorie's Prelude, Evie's Nocturne, Stephanie's Mazurka, and Gertie's recitation all went off without a hitch, and received their due reward of appreciation.

It was now Rona's turn.

For a moment she grew pale as she mounted the platform, then the coral flushed back into her cheeks.
She had no time to think of the audience.

Miss Ledbury was already playing the opening bars: "Come out, come out, my dearest dear! Come out and greet the sun!" Mellow and tuneful as a blackbird's, Rona's clear rich young voice rang out, so fresh, so joyous, so natural, so full of the very spirit of maying and the glory of summer's return, that the visitors listened as one hearkens to the notes of a bird that is pouring forth its heart from a tree-top in the orchard.