"And my Bassanio doublet and tights were made at a dressmaker's!" lamented Louise Mawson.
"Who'd have thought of the Sixth choosing that very scene?"
"Well, I tried to persuade you to take something else instead," declared Gwen, offering Job's comfort to the disappointed ones.
"Gwen Gascoyne, I verily believe you knew all the time what the Sixth were going to have."
"You must have known when your sister was in it."
"I wasn't sure, but I had an inkling," confessed Gwen.
"Then why didn't you tell?" howled the girls in chorus.
"Why? Because it didn't seem fair. Winnie hadn't said a word—I only guessed. You know we're all supposed to keep our own secrets."
"In this case you ought to have warned us properly. It was too bad to let us rehearse all that time, and get all the costumes together—for this!"
"We've made ourselves ridiculous, and it's your fault entirely."