Please excuse me," she said, turning to the assembled girls.

She was making a desperate effort to be polite when she preferred to be rude.
"Mabel Ashe, you're the dearest girl," Grace burst forth as the little crowd dissolved and strolled off in different directions.

"You have been lovely to Elfreda, and instead of her evening being spoiled, you know what I mean, she has actually made a sensation." "I am not the only one who has been looking out for J.Elfreda's interests," reminded Mabel.

"I am glad that she has this talent.

It will help her to make friends with the girls, and if nothing more is said about the registrar affair she will soon have a following of her own." "Do you think anything more will be said ?" asked Grace anxiously.
"Not if I can help it," was the response.
It was almost midnight when, after seeing Ruth Denton home, the four girls climbed the steps of Wayne Hall.
"It was lovely, wasn't it, Anne ?" declared Grace as she slipped into her kimono and began taking the pins from her hair.
"Yes," said Anne with a half sigh.