There is no engagement yet, but there will be inside of a year or my name is not Arline Thayer." "Really ?" asked Grace, her eyes widening with interest.

"She has never so much as intimated it to me." "I know a little about it, for we have mutual friends in New York.
Besides, Father knows the man.

I've met him.

He's a dear, and awfully handsome." Having lingered to talk until the last moment the two girls were obliged to part abruptly and scurry off to their recitation rooms, which lay in different directions.

They met late in the afternoon in the gymnasium to watch Elfreda's last practice playing before the game, but in their momentary basketball enthusiasm the topic of the morning's conversation was not touched upon.
The game between the sophomore and junior teams was looked upon as an event of extreme importance.