She's been there almost an hour." "For me ?" inquired Grace in surprise.

"I'll go in at once." An instant later the girls heard a delighted little cry of "Eleanor, you dear thing!" Then Grace sprang to the door, exclaiming: "Girls, girls! come in here at once.

You can never guess who is here!" At the cry of "Eleanor," Miriam and Anne, who were half way upstairs, ran down again and into the living room.

They were followed by Elfreda, who paused on the stairs, then turned and went slowly up to her room.
"Last year I wouldn't have known enough to go on about my business," she muttered as she walked stolidly into her room and sat down on the end of the couch.
Ten minutes later Miriam burst into the room with: "Come downstairs, Elfreda.

Don't you want to meet Eleanor?
You know you have said so ever so many times.