How she longed to be in the bustle of unpacking, and to make the rounds of all her favourite haunts by the river and in the beautiful old garden! Dorene and Cornie wouldn't be there.

They were graduated and gone.

But Elsie and A.O.and Margaret Elwood and Betty--as she named them over such a homesick pang seized her, that it seemed as if she could not bear the thought of never going back.
The thought of all she was missing, drove her as it used to do, to her shadow-chum for sympathy, and Lloyd was in her thoughts all day.
Somehow, when Huldah came back from the grocery, bringing her a letter from Lloyd, she was not at all surprised, although it was the first one she had received from her since she left school, except a little note of sympathy right after Jack's accident.
The surprise came when she opened the letter.

She read it over and over, and then, because Jack was at the office and her mother at a neighbour's, she turned to her long-neglected journal for a confidante.
She had to hunt through all the drawers of her desk for it, it had been hidden away so long.

She felt that the news in the letter was worthy a place in her good times book, for it recorded Lloyd's happiness, which was as dear to her as her own.
"Oh, little Red Book," she wrote, "what an amazing secret I am going to give you to hold! _Lloyd is engaged, and not to Phil!_ She has been engaged since last June to Rob Moore.