"Why should you run away from the members of your own sorority ?" Marian did not answer, but half tried to free herself from the detaining hands of her friends.

For a moment her expression softened, then she tossed her head and said, "Let me go, please." "Marian," said Grace bluntly, "you have been acting very strangely toward us since we came back from the house party, and we don't understand it.

You have stayed away from two sorority meetings and have deliberately avoided all of us, with the exception of Eva.

We feel badly over it, because we have always liked you, and because you are a Phi Sigma Tau." "Yes, Marian," interrupted Jessica, "have you forgotten the solemn initiation rites that were conducted at my house last year ?" "No," Marian admitted, smiling a little.
"Then listen, while Anne, who speaks more impressive English than the rest of us, tells you why we have thus entrapped you and used Eva for a bait.

Speechify, Anne, and we will put in the applause at the proper intervals." "Marian," began Anne, "Grace has already told you how kindly our feeling is for you, and the reason that we tried to see you to-night is because of something that I spoke of to Grace yesterday.