"Being Freshmen, all of you are strangers to me.

I should dislike to begin the year with you feeling there was one among you small enough to do a trick like that.
The next proposition, please." When the hour had gone the class filed back to the study room and Elnora followed in desperation, because she did not know where else to go.

She could not study as she had no books, and when the class again left the room to go to another professor for the next recitation, she went also.
At least they could put her out if she did not belong there.

Noon came at last, and she kept with the others until they dispersed on the sidewalk.

She was so abnormally self-conscious she fancied all the hundreds of that laughing, throng saw and jested at her.