Thanksgiving plans now occupied the foreground, and as the vacation was too short even to think about going home, the girls began to make plans to spend their brief holiday as advantageously as possible at or at least very near Overton.
"There's a football game over at Willston, on Thanksgiving Day," remarked Grace, looking up from the paper on which she was jotting down possible amusements for vacation.

Miriam had run into Grace's room for a brief chat before dinner.

"We don't know any Willston men, though.

I think football is ever so much more interesting when one knows the players.

If we were nearer the boys we might attend a fraternity dance once in a while." "David says in his last letter that he is waiting impatiently for the holidays.