Hange. But the part made a hit. "Isn't she just like some little girl who used to go to school with you--that funny, stupid Ermengarde?" one girl would say to another. "They're all natural, but she's absolutely perfect." "Sara's a dear," said the Princess, "but I want to talk to Ermengarde. Mayn't I go behind? We actor people always like to do that, you know." So she was escorted behind the scenes, and it was the proudest moment of Roberta's life when the Princess, having asked particularly for her, said all sorts of nice things about her "real talent" and "artistic methods." "That settles it, Roberta," said Betty, who was behind the scenes in her capacity of chief dressing-maid and first assistant to the make-up man. "You've got to try for senior dramatics." "Do you really think I could get a part?" asked Roberta coolly. "I think you might," said Betty, amazed beyond words by Roberta's ready acquiescence. "You probably won't
