Maybe you noticed I wasn't very talkative that night after we got back to the house, Miriam ?" Miriam nodded.
"After that, Virginia and I didn't speak.

I didn't care much anyhow, for she made me tired," continued Elfreda.

"But when the talk about the sophomore reception began I saw that they were going to hand me a whole block of ice.

It was bad enough to have them cut me in classes and on the street, but I had set my heart on the reception and wrote to Ma to send me a new dress.

It came yesterday.