"I'd like to stop the clock right here," she declared, "and stay just at this age for years and years.

It's so nice to be as _old_ as seventeen, and yet at the same time to be as _young_ as that." Then she went skipping off to her room with the dowry pig in one hand and a green candle from the cake in the other, to report the affair to Ethelinda.

They were not members of the same sorority, but they had many interests in common now.

They had learned how to adjust themselves to each other.

Mary still reserved her deepest confidences for her shadow-chum, but Ethelinda shared the rest..