Peggy Parsons at Prep School

a golden braid, and stretching her sl

ate out of the semi-darkness of the one-candle-

fluttering folds of her new blue silk kimono, which had been given her by a cousin t

ly, bobbing up and down before her refle

ench and mathematics, and yawning isn't one,-a manner, I mean. Yawning is enough to keep

a final whirl of blue draperies, "if I

then," said the other girl heartily. "

s, nearly colliding with a little rose tree that had been given to

sleep," she laughed. "And I'm glad I've got you

ir first day at Andrews had given them a sense o

selves up confusingly with dreams, the sound of singing bursting into triump

breathed Peg

Katherine, "oh, do

tage: that afternoon the Amherst team had been in town to play the local college football eleven,

rong, with its sure tenor soaring

ss to peep down. There they were! There they really were, in the m

for Old

st mu

o the f

r gi

your be

the res

s old Amhe

ah, ra

pinched black and blue, b

heavenly,"

renade," breathed

as if she were used to this kind of

down flowers when you're serena

she might not show how ignorant she was of t

herine's tone was for

from the window seat where she had pe

ss any of the singing while she was despoiling their little tree of its blossoms. From every window in the wing a dim figur

she said, "now I'm going to begin and thro

d in jerking away her hand she fo

r pot, jardinière and all, into those singing, upturned faces, two stories be

turned and ran from the window, jumped in

ad, and I've killed them," sh

have killed, goodness knew how many fine young men, and talented ones, too. Just when they were singing up so trustingly, for her to have hurled this calamity down upon t

g her, and when she reluctantly uncovered her tea

he window quickly," Katherine w

ead. No one-not even a heartless room-mate could laugh at her if she had really killed them.

ny thing in the shining white light of

e Rose

e Ros

hout your praise

er, we'll

all climb the h

nging straight at her window,-and oh, moo

and over, "thank you, thank you. I'm so

e glee-club began to move off. Peggy sat still in t

her, and she breathed it in slowly. K

do you," she said, "and I'm glad

en she gave one of

ol," she murmured, disregarding Katherine's observation. "And, just