A Hostel Frolic "The Foursome League," which Verity had instituted with her room-mates at the hostel, was kept by them as a solemn compact.

They stuck to one another nobly, though often in the teeth of great inconvenience.

It generally took three of them to urge Fil through her toilet in the mornings and drag her down to breakfast in time.

She was always so terribly sleepy at seven o'clock, and so positive that she could whisk through her dressing in ten minutes, and that it was quite unnecessary to get up so soon: even when the others mercilessly pulled the bed-clothes from her, and pointed to their watches, she would dawdle instead of "whisking," and spend much superfluous time over manicure or dabbing on cucumber cream to improve her complexion.

She was so innocent about her little vanities, and conducted them with such child-like complacency, that the girls tolerated them quite good humoredly, and even assisted sometimes.