Sometimes I think you are as old as--as Prissy." "Prissy" was the disrespectful nickname by which the young ladies referred, behind her back, to Miss Priscilla Cabot.
Mary laughed.

"Not quite, I hope," she said.

"But I don't see why I should be so very anxious to meet Crawford Smith.

And I'm sure he isn't anxious to meet me.

If all the other girls are crazy about him, that ought to be enough, I should think." This astonishing profession of indifference to the fascination of the football hero, indifference which Miss Barbara declared to be only make-believe, was made on a Saturday.