She had lost considerable weight and was now a member of the scrub team.

Her greatest ambition was to make the real team in her junior year, and with that intent she sturdily refused to eat sweet things, took long walks and daily haunted the gymnasium, going through the various forms of exercises she had elected to take with commendable persistency.
Grace had never sought to discover the identity of the freshman who had stolen her theme.

She felt reasonably certain that the same roof covered them both, but she never allowed herself to reach the point of laying the finger of suspicion on any one in particular.

That she had been vindicated of the charge was quite enough for her, but she could not resist wondering occasionally what had prompted the deed, and whether the other girl had turned over a new leaf.
One other thing troubled Grace not a little.

Mildred Taylor had become extremely intimate with Mary Hampton and Alberta Wicks.