The sophomore year had been crowded with many trials, some of them positive school tragedies, in which Anne and Grace had been the principal actors.
"What are you two mooning over ?" asked a gay voice, and the two girls turned with a start to find Julia Crosby grinning cheerfully at them.
"O Julia, how glad I am to see you at close range!" exclaimed Grace.
"Admiring you from a distance isn't a bit satisfactory." "Business, children, business," said Julia briskly.

"That's the only thing that keeps me from your side.

The duties of the class president are many and irksome.

At the present moment I've a duty on hand that I don't in the least relish, and I want your august assistance.

Will you promise to help before I tell you ?" "Why, of course," answered Grace and Anne in the same breath.