All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance.

She had come with the intention of staying two days, if all went well.

But in the evening, during the game, she made up her mind that she would go home next day.

The maternal cares and worries, which she had so hated on the way, now, after a day spent without them, struck her in quite another light, and tempted her back to them.