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Afterward, in the car going home, he offered a more detailed review of my performance

"The school is teaching you poise, control I was iht you did rather ith your body For an Alish classic, that is," he added

"What a shame your parents aren't alive and here to see you," my Great-aunt Leonora added "I'm sure their hearts would have burst with pride"

"She's too old for that sort of thing now, Leonora

What she has to do is win over the o on with a stage career," Great-uncle Richard declared

"Still, it's nice to have family around you at times like this," she said wistfully

Great-uncle Richard see silent Still, from time to tiht were furtive glances at aze and when I looked at him, he always shifted his eyes and stared out theOnce we arrived at the house, he quickly went to his den

"I know you s are so e For the life of e Life is a stage enough?'

"That's what Shakespeare said," I told her

"Of course it is," she said even though I was positive she didn't knohat I meant "Why did you think I said it? Well, I'll be sure to write hed nervously and went to her room

Randall had wanted o out with him after the reception, but I didn't think it was proper to leave the Endfields in light of their attending the

performances I retreated instead to my own small closet of a roo in e, the pleasure in Mr

MacWaine's face, Randall's glee and all the wonderful comments at the reception

Maybe I could do this Maybe it wasn't a pipe drea me to come here and study What I couldn't help but wonder is what ht of my performance After all, he was a Shakespearean expert, wasn't he?

I iined that he had come to our performance and sat in the back of the audience, undetected Afterward, he was so i to the reception to tell hter