Chapter 30
Week 13, Instructor Calendar, December 1896
And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.
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With Concordia’s injury, teaching classes and directing the play were out of the question for the next few days. Miss Jenkins summarily ordered her to rest and not to use her voice. At all.
It became clear to Concordia that she wasn’t suited to having time on her hands. She had soon finished her backlog of papers and and caught up on her reading. She even re-read Hamlet, writing notes in the margins about what tips to pass along to students, when she was allowed to talk again. She was worried about Eli. The boy had been gone for several days now. No one had seen him at the settlement house or any of his usual haunts.
Capshaw had sent word about their progress s
