The following Easter vacation her grandfather joined her for a flight to New York and Washington, and this was one of the happiest of experiences.

During the remainder of her college life she was often asked to the houses of her girl friends in and about Boston; her diffidence passed; she found that she had ideas and the means of expressing them.

The long summers were spent at the cottage in the Lane; she saw Mrs.Owen now and then with deepening attachment, and her friend never forgot to send her a Christmas gift--once a silver purse and a twenty-dollar gold piece; again, a watch--always something carefully chosen and practical.
Sylvia arranged to return to college with two St.Louis girls after her senior Christmas, to save her grandfather the long journey, for he had stipulated that she should never travel alone.

By a happy chance Dan Harwood, on his way to Boston to deliver an issue of telephone bonds in one of Bassett's companies, was a passenger on the same train, and he promptly recalled himself to Sylvia, who proudly presented him as a Yale man to her companions.

A special car filled with young collegians from Cincinnati and the South was later attached to the train, and Dan, finding several Yalensians in the company, including the year's football hero, made them all acquainted with Sylvia and her friends.