Arline and Ruth are the first real friends we have seen so far.

Where are Mabel Ashe and Frances Marlton, Emma Dean and Gertrude Wells, not to mention Virginia Gaines ?" "If I'm not mistaken," said Elfreda slowly, her brows drawing together in an ominous frown, "there are two people just ahead of us whom we have reason to remember." Almost at the moment of her declaration the girls had espied two young women loitering along the walk ahead of them whose very backs were too familiar to be mistaken.
"It's Miss Wicks and Miss Hampton, isn't it ?" asked Anne.
Grace nodded.

They were now too close to the young women for further speech.

A moment more and the bus containing the five girls had passed the loitering pair.

Neither side had made the slightest sign of recognition.