How greatly she had changed, and what a power she would be in her class during the senior year.

Grace felt that her sophomore year, though dark in the beginning, was about to end in a blaze of glory.
Julia sat down amid demonstrations of approval.

Then the first notes of "Auld Lang Syne" sounded on the piano, and the entire audience, led by the senior glee club, rose to their feet to join in that sweetest of old songs whose plaintive melody causes heart strings to tighten and eyes to fill.
The four chums silently joined hands as they sang, and mentally resolved that with them "auld acquaintance" should never "be forgot." There was a second's pause after the song was done.

Then clear on the air rose the senior class yell.

That broke the spell.