As it happened, a freshman whose cousin lived at Morton House had invited her to share her room.

She had departed that very afternoon and Mrs.Elwood offered Elfreda the now vacant half of her room.

Emma Dean, the tall, near-sighted freshman, occupied the other half.

There was a single room in the house of Mrs.Elwood's sister, but Elfreda had refused to consider it.

Despite the fact that there were now four young women at Wayne Hall with whom she was not on speaking terms, she could not bring herself to leave the house.