The club gallantly escorted Elfreda to the very door of Wayne Hall and left her after singing to her and giving three cheers.

Grace, Anne, Miriam, Arline, Ruth, Mildred Taylor and Laura Atkins were her body guard up the stairs.

At the landing Laura Atkins called a halt and invited every one present to a jollification in her room that night in honor of Elfreda.
While Elfreda was explaining that she didn't wish the girls to go to any trouble for her, although her eyes shone with delight at being thus honored, the door bell rang repeatedly, and the maid, grumbling under her breath, admitted Emma Dean, who skipped up the stairs two at a time.
"I'm always late," she announced cheerfully, "but hardly ever too late.
I stopped at the big bulletin board.

I noticed a letter there addressed to you, Grace.

It was marked 'Important' in one corner.