It was he who had driven the car on that memorable day when Ruth Denton had gone to the station to meet her father.

Grace's eyes grew dreamy as they passed through the familiar streets.

How much had happened since the time when she had entered Oakdale High School as a freshman with college in the far and hidden future.
To her many friends "Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School," "Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School," "Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School," and "Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School" are now familiar records.
Equally well known to these friends is the story of her freshman year at Overton, as set forth in "Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College." Accompanied by her friends, Miriam Nesbit and Anne Pierson, Grace began her freshman year at Overton College under a cloud which rose from her ready defense of J.Elfreda Briggs, a disgruntled student who had made enemies of two sophomores, and whose first days at college were made very unpleasant by them.

J.Elfreda's subsequent casting aside of her friendship and her tardy realization of Grace's worth brought about a happy ending of their freshman year.
In "Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College" the four girls set out to find the rainbow side of their sophomore year.

How each girl found it, but in an entirely different manner, how Grace lived up to her resolve to choose only the highest in college, and how the famous Semper Fidelis Club came into existence, made the sophomore year in college memorable.
"Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College" told of what befell the four friends as juniors.