But why should these two girls accept the hospitality of the very girl they had tried to drive away from Overton?
It was a puzzle that Grace could not solve.

She discussed it with Anne and Miriam but they could throw no light on the mystery.
The coming of the Easter vacation gave the three girls more pleasant matters of which to think.

This time Ruth Denton accompanied them to Oakdale as Grace's guest, while Miriam invited Arline Thayer also, as a surprise to Ruth.

When Arline serenely joined them at the station the morning of their departure, Ruth could hardly believe the evidence of her own eyes.
The two weeks in Oakdale flew by on wings.

With the boys and the other members of the Phi Sigma Tau at home, too, there were more things to do and places to go than could possibly be squeezed into that brief space of time.