Chapter 33

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all the hot-house flowers the others wore! Anne laid her hat and jacket away and shrank miserably into a corner. She wished herself back in the white room at Green Gables.

It was still worse on the platform of the big concert hall of the hotel, where she presently found herself. The electric lights dazzled her eyes, the perfume and hum bewildered her. She wished she were sitting down in the audince audience with Diana and Jane, who seemed to be having a splendid time away at the back. She was wedged in between a stout lady in pink silk and a tall, (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)scornful-looking(end superscript) girl in a white lace dress. The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely round and surveyed Anne through her eye-glasses until Anne, felt that