Harlequin And Columbine

It’s because I’m so happy, she explained–to his way of thinking, divinely. I’m so happy I just pour out everything. I want to sing every minute. You see, it seemed such a long while that I was waiting for my chance. Some of us wait forever, Mr. Canby, and I was so afraid mine might never come. If it hadn’t come now it might never have come. If I’d missed this one, I might never have had another. It frightens me to think of it– and I oughtn’t to be thinking of it! I ought to be spending all my time on my knees thanking God that old Mr. Packer got it into his head that ‘The Little Minister’ was a play about the Baptists!