"They must find out," said Cordelia.
"How?" asked Lee.
"Through the ingenuity of their wits. It will be within the next two weeks, and not a freshman will miss it," Cordelia told her.
"I know one thing we can do without compromising our dignity," said Janet. "Each senior can try to make an engagement with a freshman for one of the evenings of the two weeks. If any one of them declines an invitation, it will probably be for some good reason. She will give the reason frankly if it is not a secret, and if she doesn't, look out for that date."
"She might give a false reason to put us off the track," suggested Lee.
"True; then all reasons must be followed up."
"I shall begin by inviting Nora Tuttle to a spread in our rooms," said Lee. "That will leave eleven evenings to be filled by eleven of the class."
"Each of us will take one," Cordelia said, "and if there are any who refuse to help the sophs, two evenings will have to be taken by the zealous. We'd better devise very different, sorts of invitations, for of all things, we must keep the freshmen from suspecting."
"I know a wedding that is coming off on the evening of the third," said Teddy; "I have cards for it, and I don't believe Carrie Swift ever lost an opportunity of going to a wedding."
"We'll manage," concluded Janet, "but you must tell the sophs to keep their eyes and ears open, Lee."