The boys were to leave early the next morning, so the girls would not see them again until Easter.
"Don't forget to write," called Nora after Hippy, as he hurried down the steps after the others, who had reached the gate.
"You'll hear from me as soon as we hit the knowledge shop," was the reassuring answer.
At the corner the little party separated, Hippy, Reddy and Jessica going in one direction, Anne and David in another, leaving Tom and Grace to pursue their homeward way alone.

As they turned into Putnam Square, Grace gave a little exclamation, and seizing Tom by the arm, drew him behind a statue of Israel Putnam at the entrance of the square.
"Marian Barber is coming this way with that horrid Henry Hammond," she whispered.

"I don't care to meet them.

I have not spoken to him since the house party, and Marian will be so angry if I cut him deliberately when he is with her.

I am sure they have not seen us.