"We've taken you under our wing, and claim you for our sorority.

We're not going to have any of the Lloydsboro Valley girls imposed on, and if she gets too uppity she'll find herself boycotted." As the door closed behind her Dorene remarked, "She's a dear little thing.

I'm going to see that she has so much attention to-night that Ethelinda will wake up to the fact that she's worth having for a friend.
I'm going to ask Evelyn Berkeley to make a special point of being nice to her." The thought that Cornie considered her one of the Lloydsboro girls sent Mary away with a pleasurable thrill that made her cheeks glow all evening.

There was something in the donning of party clothes that always loosened her tongue, and conscious of looking her best she plunged into the festivity of the hour with such evident enjoyment that others naturally gravitated towards her to share it.
"Congratulations!" whispered Betty, happening to pass her towards the close of the evening.

"You're quite one of the belles of the ball." "Isn't it simply perfect ?" sighed Mary, her face beaming.
Herr Vogelbaum had just come in and was settling himself at the piano, in place of the musicians who had been performing.