I found out about it from Julia's sister this morning." "Oh Marian, please don't," begged Grace, rosy with confusion.
But the girls cried in chorus, "Tell us, Marian! Don't mind Grace!" When Marian had finished many of the girls were in tears.

They crowded around Anne and Grace vying with each other in trying to show their good will.

Then Eva Allen proposed three cheers for Grace and Anne.
They were given with a will.

The noise of the ovation bringing one of the teachers to the door with the severe injunction, "Young ladies please contain yourselves.

There is too much noise here." The girls dispersed by twos and threes, until Marian Barber and the chums were the only ones left.
"I have a motto," said Marian, "that I shall bring here to-morrow and hang in the locker-room.