Chapter 32
Week 11, Instructor Calendar December 1898
Concordia went through supper in a distracted haze as students chattered excitedly around her. They returned to the farmhouse afterward to change for the Christmas Revels and reception. The girls had been practicing their lines and rehearsing their dance steps every night for the past week.
In addition to the Revels, the young ladies were in a frenzy of preparing their homemade Christmas gifts. The fire had destroyed all of the projects they had started, so there was no time to be lost. The common room was a veritable explosion of colored tissue paper, ribbons, scissors, and bright yarns.
The girls dressed carefully in their most festive holiday gowns brought back from home, chatting and pinning up each other’s hair.
Concordia took
