began. There I met Grace and Miriam and two other girls who are among
my dearest friends. Nothing very exciting has ever happened to me,
and even though I have appeared before the public I haven't as much
to tell as the rest of you have."

"But countless things must have happened to you in the theatre,"
persisted Arline, looking curiously at Anne.

"Not so many as you might imagine," replied Anne. Then she said
quickly, "Miriam must have been an interesting little girl."

"I was a very haughty young person," answered Miriam. "In the
Oakdale Grammar School I was known as the Princess. Do you remember
that, Grace?"

Grace nodded. "Miriam used to order the girls in her room about as
though they were her subjects," she declared. "She had two long black
braids of hair and her cheeks were always pink. She was the tallest
girl in her room and the teachers used to say she was the prettiest."

"I was a regular tyrant," went on Miriam. "I had a frightful temper.
I was a snob, too, and looked upon girls whose parents were poor with
the utmost contempt."

"Miriam Nesbit, you can't be describing yourself!" exclaimed Arline
incredulously.

"Ask Grace if I am not giving an accurate description of the Miriam
Nesbit of those days," challenged Miriam.