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Early in January there was a dress rehearsal of the Trial Scene of "The Merchant of Venice. " The Grandee of the neighborhood who owned the great park, Sir W. W. W., some M. P. 's, notably a Mr. Whalley who had a pretty daughter and lived in the vicinity, and the Vicar and his family were invited, and others whom I did not know; but with the party from the Vicarage came Lucille.
The big schoolroom had been arranged as a sort of theatre and the estrade at one end where the Head-Master used to throne it on official occasions, was converted into a makeshift stage and draped by a big curtain that could be drawn back or forth at will.