"She does mean mischief.

I'll speak to Grace about it as soon as we go upstairs." But before they left the dining room the door bell rang.

The maid admitted Gertrude Wells and Arline Thayer, and in the pleasure of seeing them, Miriam's resolve to warn Grace was quite forgotten.
The practice game ended in an overwhelming advantage for Grace's team.
The other team behaved good-naturedly over their defeat and challenged the winners to play again the following Saturday.

They promptly accepted the challenge, and, when the second practice game was played, again came off victorious.
Grace's old basketball ardor had returned threefold and every available moment found her in the gymnasium hard at work.

The other members of the teams had imbibed considerable of her enthusiasm.