Marjorie Dean College Junior

past six. "Where were you? Lucy said you ruined your blue pongee with some horrid old chem

it. A plain insinuation that I'm a slowpoke. Take it back." In

ut up her hands in comic self-defense. "You certainly are in a fine humor after keeping your

ton. I started for there in a taxicab. Then I met a lady in distress, and, em

e she saw you she dropped 'em. 'With a sympathetic yell, Helpful Marjorie leaped from the taxicab to aid her ove

rtonite this afternoon. The lady in distress I met was--" Marjorie paused

u didn't ask me to guess. She is the last person I would have thought of. Now how

elf with the redressing of her hair. After dinner she would have no more than time

terest in the owner of Hamilton Arms which Marjorie had evinced since ente

I couldn't have gone on in the taxi after I saw what had happened to Miss Susanna. She couldn't have carried the basket as I did cl

as met with some rude girls. On the order of the Sans, you know. If, in the past twenty years, Hamilton

nd lonely. She is lonely, even if she doesn't know it. She has deliberately shut the door between herself and happiness. I

er. "Are you ready to go down to dinner? My hair is done, too. I shall dress after I've been fed. Oh, I forgot to te

would help me out. I supposed it would b

it after dinner. It is a hand-painted chocolate po

ged to you." Marjorie cast a longing glance at the tall

interest of her chums. She was obliged to repeat, as nearly as she co

May basket?" quizzed

she?" counter-qu

over fifty years. She might have said, 'But some kind-hearted pers

light of fancy was waste

aven't proper sentime

ed laughter the tilt evoked reached the table occupied by Leslie

ough to laugh at," commented

metimes. I hate eating dinner here. I'd dine at the Colonial every evening, but it takes too much time. I really must study hard this year to get through. I certainly will be

I have heard two or three rumors that sound as though those girls over there had told about what happened

rtuous resolve as she delivered

old a thing outside of their own crowd. They're a close corporation. I wish I

said sharply. "Who of us would be sil

you are foolish enough to babble your own about the campus, on your head be it. Be sure you will hear from me if you tell tales. Besides, you are apt to lose your diplomas by it. A word to the wise, you know. I have a recitation in psychology