"Always enter with your right foot foremost."
"Now you look fine! . . . but do you want to appear on the stage in short skirts without wearing tights?"
"I haven't any! . . ."
All began to laugh at her embarrassed look.
"I will loan you a pair," cried Zielinska. "I think they'll fit you." They treated her with undisguised favor, for they had heard that she was to teach Cabinska's daughter and that Pepa had loaned her a costume.
Janina, looking in the mirror, hardly recognized herself. It seemed as though she wore a mask, only slightly resembling her own face and with that strange expression that all the chorus girls wore.
She went downstairs to Sowinska.
"My dear madame, tell me truly, how do I look?" she begged, all excited and flushed.
Sowinska scrutinized her from all sides and, with her finger, spread the rouge more thoroughly on her cheeks.
"Who gave you that costume?" she asked.