It seemed to Grace as though she attracted more attention than the receiving party itself.

It was: "Mabel, dear, dance the first waltz with me;" "Come and drink lemonade with us, Queen Mab," and "Why, you dear Mabel, I might have known the sophomores couldn't get along without you." "She knows every girl in college, I believe," remarked Anne to Edith Allen, as Mabel stood laughing and talking animatedly, the center of an admiring group.
"Every one loves her from the faculty down," replied Edith.

"She hadn't been here six weeks as a freshman until the whole class was sending her violets and asking her out to dinners.

She was elected president of the freshman class, too, and had the honor of refusing the sophomore nomination.

They want her for junior president, but she will refuse that nomination, too.