We thought when we were graduated from high school that our parting of the ways had come, but now that we are all standing on the verge of our life work, it seems to me that this is going to be the real parting.

I can't help wondering if things will seem quite the same again when we gather home next year." "Of course they will," declared practical Nora.

"Grace Harlowe, don't you dare to grow gloomy and retrospective.

We four are chums for life, and not all the weddings and stage careers and Harlowe House positions in the world can change us." "I know they can't.

I won't make any more excursions into the Valley of Doubt," promised Grace.
They had stopped on the walk to talk, now they moved slowly toward the veranda, four abreast, a bright-eyed, happy quartette.