sentences:  Other friends at this point in her life included Professor Teasley, the head director of the theater; his wealthy and often eccentric mother Nanny Teasley; Tootie, Helen, and Dolores, three secretaries at the theater, J.R. Phillips, the theater's stage manager, who was supposedly also gay; Hubert Jamison, a fellow (and somewhat vain) actor; and a woman named Paris Knights, an artist who is a friend of Mr. Cecil's.At this point, she is engaged and almost married, but was jilted by her fiancé, Ray Layne, when he returns to his former fiancée, named of Ann, and eventually marries her.She eventually graduates school, with the aid of Professor Teasley fixing it so she can graduate without having to deal with Algebra.