as every one else did.

In five minutes Mary was calling her A.O.too, and wishing a little enviously that either one of these bright friendly girls could have fallen to her lot instead of the polite iceberg she had run away from.
"But I won't complain of her to them," she thought loyally.

"Maybe she'll improve on acquaintance and be so nice that I'd be sorry some day that I said anything against her." Several other girls came in while she sat there, and a box of candy was passed around.

Finding herself in the company of congenial young spirits was a new experience for Mary.
"Now I know what it means to be 'in the swim,'" she thought exultantly.
"I feel like a duck who has found a whole lake to swim in, when it has never had anything bigger than a puddle before." The sensation was so exhilarating that it prompted her to exert herself to keep on saying funny things and send her audience off into gales of laughter.

And all the time the consciousness deepened that they really liked her, that she was really entertaining them.
After lunch the day went by in a rush.