The Peep-hole The Foursome League met in Dormitory 2 after the holidays with much clattering of tongues.

Each wanted to tell her own experience, and they all talked at once.

Fil had a new way of doing her hair, and gave the others no peace till they had duly realized and appreciated it.

Verity had been bridesmaid to a cousin, and wished to give full details of the wedding; Nora had played hockey in a Scotch team against a Ladies' Club, and had been promised ten minutes in an aeroplane, but the weather had been too stormy for the flight; the disappointment--when she happened to remember it--quite weighed down her spirits.
"If there's one thing on earth--or rather on air--I'd like to be, it's a flying woman!" she told her friends emphatically.

"I'm hoping aeroplanes will get a little cheaper some day, and rich people will keep them instead of motor cars.