“Gee!” breathed the one eager for a hearing.
“Now for the characterization! Don’t all speak at once, but one at a time tell what you think of it.”
“Did you mean to make Polly so silly?” asked Lilian.
“I—I—perhaps!” faltered Molly.
“Of course if you meant to, why then your characterization is perfect.”
“Silly! Why, she is dear,” declared the girl from Alabama. “I don’t like her having to nurse that black man, though.”
“Too many points of view!” suddenly blurted out a member who had hitherto kept perfectly silent, but she had been eagerly scanning a paper whereon was written the requisites for a short story.
“But you see——” meekly began Molly.
“The point of view must either be that of the author solely or one of the characters,” asserted the knowing one. “Why, you even let us know how the Bedouin feels.”
“Oh!” gasped the poor author. “I think you would limit the story teller too much if you eliminated such things as that.”