The Semper Fidelis girls were to be Elfreda's guests at Vinton's that night at a six o'clock dinner.

On Thanksgiving morning they were to breakfast at the Tourraine as the guests of Ruth and Arline.

Thanksgiving dinner at Martell's was to be Anne's and Miriam's part of the celebration, while Thanksgiving night Emma and Grace were to be hostesses at Vinton's, their favorite rendezvous.
Grace would have dearly loved to be hostess at the Thanksgiving dinner, but she felt that her duty lay with her household.

She wondered whether it would be really right for her to remain away from Harlowe House for so many meals.

After long and earnest discussion, she and Emma had arranged that she would give up eating Thanksgiving dinner with her friends, while Emma cheerfully agreed to preside at the Harlowe House breakfast table on Thanksgiving morning.