The coaches' verdict for Steeply: a future in the Show, but a "susceptible will"

texture · 11 Nov YDAU, afternoon

• When: 11 Nov YDAU, match-side during the Hal-vs-Stice exhibition watched by the disguised "Helen Steeply."
• What: Millicent is named on both sides of the coaches' ledger. Enumerating the E.T.A. players with a genuine professional future, deLint counts her with the twins: "A couple of the girls—Kent, Caryn and Sharyn here." Later in the bleacher conversation, the same running commentary catalogues the emotional liability that keeps talent from surviving into the Show — "This emotional susceptibility in terms of forgetting being more commonly a female thing" — and names her among the susceptible: "Susceptible wills are more common to the top girls here. We see it in Longley, we see it in Millie Kent and Frannie Unwin." Talent conceded, temperament doubted. The second speech reads as deLint's (see Dating notes for the attribution basis and flag).