Why didn't you let me go along?
I was dying to cross swords with that old stone face." Then everyone talked at once, surrounding Mabel and asking her questions until Grace said, laughing: "Stop it, girls; let her get used to you gradually.

Don't come down on her like an avalanche." Mabel, however, was equal to the occasion.

She answered their questions without embarrassment, and seemed quietly pleased at their demonstrations.
"You are the child of the sorority now, Mabel," said Miriam Nesbit, "and we are your adopted mothers.

You will have your hands full trying to please all of us." "Stop teasing her," said Anne, "or she'll run away before she is fairly adopted." "It is very uncertain as to whether she will ever go further than my house," said Jessica calmly.

"I need Mabel more than do the rest of you, but perhaps if you're good I'll loan her to you occasionally.