What a spectacle I made for them!" Elnora laughed nervously at her own picture.

"But there are always two sides! The professor said in the algebra class that he never had a better solution and explanation than mine of the proposition he gave me, which scored one for me in spite of my clothes." "Well, I wouldn't brag on myself!" "That was poor taste," admitted Elnora.

"But, you see, it is a case of whistling to keep up my courage.

I honestly could see that I would have looked just as well as the rest of them if I had been dressed as they were.

We can't afford that, so I have to find something else to brace me.