She is very sorry, now, that she did so." "All this is not news to us," snapped Marian Cummings, one of the two freshmen Anne had overheard at the reception.

She stared insolently at Anne.
"But what I am about to tell you will perhaps surprise you," Anne answered evenly.

"Miss Briggs received a note purporting to come from the whole sophomore class.

The writer of the note threatened her with vague penalties if she attended the sophomore reception, and practically ordered her to leave college." The girls looked at one another without answering.

This silence showed only too plainly that this was indeed news.
"Miss Briggs showed the letter to Miss Nesbit, her roommate, and to Miss Harlowe," Anne continued composedly.