Phil, who lounged against the piazza-rail opposite, dispensed an enormous and meaning wink at his two friends as they came up the steps.
Clover jumped up from her chair, and gave them a most cordial reception.
"How delightful to see you again so soon!" she said.

Then she introduced them to a girl in pink and a girl in blue as Miss Perham and Miss Blanchard, and they shook hands with Marian Chase, whom they already knew, and lastly were presented to Mr.Wade, the youth in white.

The three young men eyed one another with a not very friendly scrutiny, just veiled by the necessary outward politeness.
"Then you will be all ready for Thursday,--and your brother too, of course,--and my mother will stop for you at half-past ten on her way down," they heard him say.

"Miss Chase will go with the Hopes.

Oh, yes; there will be plenty of room.