"See you in a minute." She ran lightly up the stairs, smiling to herself.

Helen and Leona rushed out in the hall to interview a girl who had just come in.
Finding themselves alone for the moment Mabel turned to Grace with a solemnly inquiring air, "How did you do it ?" she asked in a low tone.
"I'll tell you some other time," replied Grace.

"It was a surprise to me, but the chance just happened to come and I took advantage of it." The return of the three young women cut off further opportunity for explanation, but as Grace walked back to Holland House, one arm linked in that of Mabel Ashe, while Beatrice Alden, heretofore frigid and unapproachable, walked at the other side of the popular junior, she could not help wishing a certain other tangle might be as easily straightened..