“I do not,” declared Nancy. “I have done nothing.”
“Oh, no! Just walking off with Bob Endress and keeping him all the afternoon. Why, Grace is his cousin—and she’ll never forgive you.”
It was on the tip of Nancy’s tongue to say she didn’t care; but instead she remained silent.
“I had the hardest work to coax her to come to-night,” went on Cora.
This was the evening marked for the spread in Number 30.
“I do not see that I have done anything to you girls,” said Nancy, with some warmth. “I happened to know Bob Endress——”
“How did you come to know Bob? He never said anything about it,” snapped Cora.
“Well, I can assure you we were acquainted.”
“It’s certainly very strange,” said the other girl, suspiciously.
“I don’t see that it is anybody’s business but our own,” Nancy Nelson returned, with growing confidence. “And I did not mean to offend either you or Miss Montgomery.”