You had better write to Mabel and explain matters, then leave Miss Kathleen West alone.

She hasn't spoken to you since the day of the bazaar, so I can't see that your junior counsel is of any particular use to her." "Still, it seems a shame to give up; besides, it is the first thing Mabel ever asked me to do," demurred Grace.
"I know, I've thought of that," continued Elfreda a little impatiently.
"But I don't think you are justified in wasting your whole year's fun worrying about some one who isn't worth it.

If Mabel knew, she would be the first one to indorse what I have just said." "I'm not wasting my year, Elfreda mine," contradicted Grace good-naturedly.

"Just think what a nice time we had to-night! And I'm getting along splendidly with all my subjects.

I belong to the Semper Fidelis Club, and am having the jolliest kind of times with you girls.
That doesn't sound much like wasting my year, does it ?" "I didn't say you had wasted it," retorted Elfreda gruffly.