Their appearance was terrifying.

Their faces were white as their robes, and blue flames played about their eyes.

They carried out in every particular the description of the regulation churchyard ghost.
For an instant the six girls stood still, regarding those strange apparitions with fascinated terror.

Then Eva Allen and Marian Barber shrieked in unison and fled down the street as fast as their legs would carry them.

Grace, Nora, Anne and Miriam stood their ground and awaited the oncoming spectres, who halted when they saw that the girls did not intend to run.
"High School boys, on a lark," whispered Grace to her friends.