"If she is we certainly shall lay siege to you two for our sorority.

We ought to have first claim, for all the other Lloydsboro Valley girls belong to us.

Come over and see Cornie." Conscious that as a friend of the Valley girls she had gone up many degrees in Dorene's estimation, Mary put away her scissors and plaster-case, and followed her newfound acquaintance across the hall.
Her cordial reception gave her what she had been longing for all morning, the sense of being in intimate touch with things in the inner circle of school life.

Because she knew Lloyd and Betty so well, they took her in as one of themselves, gave her a seat on a suit-case, the chairs all being full, and climbed over her and around her as they went on with their unpacking.

Mary was in her element, and blossomed out into such an interesting visitor, that Dorene was glad that she had discovered her.