sentences:  Mrs. McClay yelled at her to shut up.She further states that Margaret hadn't screamed the word into the microphone, although her claims were easily disproven because the offending word was heard by the whole audience.With a lot of help from a lot of people (some of it not quite legitimate), she unexpectedly wins the pageant, to Mrs. McClay's disgust and outrage (because of this, she quits running the Miss Mississippi pageant for good because she felt betrayed by her so-called "friends") and is off to Atlantic City.