"I hope 19---- will be the best class Overton has ever turned out," she said simply, "and I hope that any misunderstandings that may arise will be cleared away as easily as this one has been." "Suppose we go over and congratulate Miss Harlowe on her playing this afternoon," proposed a tall freshman, "and we might incidentally pay our respects to Miss Briggs.

We must help her to live up to her good resolutions, you know," she added slyly.
Anne was in a maze of delight at her success.

The other guests had been so busily engaged with their own little groups, no one of them had overheard Anne's defense of her friend.

Grace, who was giving an eager account of the famous game that won her team the championship during her sophomore year at high school, looked up in surprise at the crowd of merry girls which suddenly surrounded her.

For an instant she looked amazed, then smiled at them in the frank, straightforward fashion that always made friends for her.
Gertrude Wells, who, with three other freshmen, had been in the kitchen preparing the refreshments, appeared in the door just in time to see the girls surround Grace.