It fitted her straight, slender figure perfectly and she decided that for once she had been wise in foregoing her favorite blue and choosing red.
The party that evening was to be a strictly informal affair.

Grace had suspected that the girls whom the members of the Phi Sigma Tau were to entertain were not likely to possess evening gowns.

In order to avoid any possibility of hurt feelings, she had quietly requested those invited to wear the afternoon gowns in which they would appear at the game.
Before one o'clock her guests had arrived.

They were three shy, quiet girls who had worshiped Grace from a distance, and who had been surprised almost to tears by her invitation.

Two of them were from Portville, a small town about seventy miles from Oakdale, and had begun High School with Grace, who had been too busy with her own affairs up to the present to find out much about them.
The other girl, Marie Bateman, had entered the class that year.