Be careful what you do.

Never give her a chance to take advantage of you in any way, for she is determined to make mischief.

Now let us forget her, and talk about the picnic." With the talk of the picnic, Grace's warning soon passed from the girls' minds.

They had no knowledge of the trials that their senior year was to bring them or how fully the truth of Grace's words was to be proved.
* * * * * The day of the picnic dawned fair and cloudless.

By nine o'clock a merry party of laughing, chattering girls had gathered in front of the High School, where the two immense wagons generally used by Oakdale picnickers, each drawn by four horses, awaited them.