She is going to find college very different from being a newspaper woman." Grace smiled faintly.

The word "woman," as applied to Kathleen West, seemed wholly amusing.
"I don't think she showed particularly good taste in speaking as she did of Mabel Ashe," criticized Anne, a moment later.

"I didn't intend to say that, but I might as well be perfectly frank with you, Grace." "I was sorry she spoke as she did, too," agreed Grace.

She did not add that the newspaper girl's half slighting remarks about Mabel Ashe still rankled in her loyal soul.

It was chiefly to please Mabel that she and her friends had hospitably received this stranger into their midst, prepared to do whatever lay within their power to make her feel at home with them.