In fact, it was after eleven before the quartette prepared for sleep.
During the evening all thought of the troublesome theme had left Grace's mind.

It was not until after she had turned out the light and gone to bed that it came back to her with such disagreeable force that for the time being all idea of sleep fled.

For the first time since her entrance into Overton College she had incurred the displeasure of one in authority over her, and through no fault of her own.
As Grace lay staring into the darkness the recollection of that bitter time during her junior year at high school, when Miss Thompson had accused her of shielding the girl who had destroyed the principal's personal papers, came back, vivid and complete.

Eleanor Savelli, now numbered among her dearest friends and a member of the Phi Sigma Tau, had been the transgressor, and Grace had refused to voice her suspicions.

It had all come right in the end, although Miss Thompson's displeasure had been hard to bear.
Perhaps this affair would end happily, too.