This made them laugh as the previous year, which had been Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the most exciting present she had received, and which had been extolled in all the newspapers, was the Koh-i-noor Diamond, which it was said was now to be added to the Royal Crown.
It was now growing late and there was continual noise outside the dressing room, besides people who kept popping their heads in to say something to the girls and then disappearing again.
They were beginning to change into the clothes that they were to wear on the stage when a dresser who was called ‘Emily’ appeared and was asked by Connie to make up Minella’s face.
“Can’t she do her own?” Emily asked cheekily.
“No and she can’t fly to the moon either!” Connie answered. “You do it now and I will do it again when we are
