CHAPTER XIV.
GRACE MAKES A RESOLUTION "What do you think has happened ?" demanded J.Elfreda Briggs, bursting into the room where Anne and Grace were busily making up for lost time.
They had lingered at Vinton's until after eight o'clock.

Then the thought of to-morrow with its eternal round of classes had driven them home, reluctantly enough, to where their books awaited them.

It was almost nine o'clock before they had actually settled themselves, and Elfreda's sudden, tempestuous entrance caused Anne to lay down her Horace with an air of patient resignation.

"We might as well begin saying 'unprepared' now, and grow accustomed to the sound of our own voices," she announced.
"I think so, too," agreed Grace.

"Well, Elfreda, why this thusness?
What has happened?
Have you been elected to the Pi Beta Gamma, or did you get an unusually large check from home ?" "Catch the P.B.Gammas troubling themselves about me," scoffed Elfreda.
"As for a check, I've written for it, but so far I've seen no signs of it.