At the end she made a short address to victors and audience alike. She thanked them for their great effort to give her pleasure, and for the great pleasure they had given her, and then added:
"When I brought your prizes this morning I had no idea what the party was to be like, and so of course I didn't get just what I would have given you if I had known. But now that I do know how wonderfully our boys can jump and run, I shall bring for each boy on Monday morning a regular running suit, and whenever you have 'Games in Gardens' again you won't have to borrow anything. Perhaps the Principal would like you to have 'Games in Gardens' on the roof some afternoon, and you could invite the other classes. I am sure they'd love it."
"You liked it all right, all right, didn't you, Teacher?" demanded Patrick.
"Liked it!" she echoed. "Why, I was simply delighted."
"Und s'prised?" questioned Morris.
"I was never more so in all my long, long life," answered Constance Bailey with entire conviction.