Stella Price and “Brownie,” as Beth found all the other girls called Lilian Browne, were likewise distinctly dissimilar. Both were in the grade above that which Beth would enter. They called themselves “sophomores.”
Stella was a strangely aloof girl—one of those persons whose minds seem traveling afar most of the time, without being dreamers. Oh no! there was nothing idealistic in Stella Price’s character. But, if a member of a group of girls, she was always the one who appeared to be listening and who seemed to have little in common with the rest of the crowd.
“You’d think,” was Molly Granger’s comment upon Stella, “that she was as wise as an owl. The appearance of wisdom fairly trickles out of her lineaments right now, doesn’t it? And I wager she’s thinking of nothing more important than whether she’ll have two or four rows of stitching on the hem of her skirt.”
A TALL, MASTERFUL GIRL STOOD AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE
TO WELCOME THEM.
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“Oh, Molly!” laughed Beth.
“Fact. As for Brownie—she’s just a nice, cuddly girl, and I love her. But she’s the most obstinate toad in the whole school!”
This conversation had been held on the boat. Of course, Beth had little chance to see many of her schoolmates that first evening. She and Molly, with the two sophomores and Cynthia Fogg, piled into an automobile bound for the school. Molly put Cynthia beside the driver. Stella and Brownie were very curious about Cynthia.
“Who is she, Molly?” whispered Brownie. “She’s never coming to the school?”
“Not as a pupil. I’m going to try to get her a place with Madam Hammersly.”