Why, this is just the worst nuisance I ever struck! You'll see! She'll be in everything there is, just the way she was back home." He appeared to be corroborated by the events of the next day, when they attended the first meeting to organize the new class.

The masculine element predominated, but Dora Yocum was elected vice-president.

"You see ?" Ramsey said.

"Didn't I tell you?
You see what happens ?" But after that she ceased for a time to intrude upon his life, and he admitted that his harassment was less grave than he had anticipated.
There were about five hundred students in the freshman class; he seldom saw her, and when he did it was not more than a distant glimpse of her on one of the campus paths, her thoughtful head bent over a book as she hurried to a classroom.

This was bearable; and in the flattering agitations of being sought, and even hunted, by several "fraternities" simultaneously desirous of his becoming a sworn Brother, he almost forgot her.