“That part won’t matter so much,” hinted the wise Katherine. “They want to do the telling, I think.”
“I’ll watch the girls all day whenever I’m not at class, and if I see anything the matter with any of them, I’ll have something to report on.”
“I know some for Myra myself.”
“Some way I hadn’t thought of that,” answered Peggy. “I believe I do, too. But here’s a good idea, Katherine,—you and I live together, and did all last year, and we ought to know slews of faults about each other. So when we are called on we can just show each other up at a great rate—drag each other out to be ridiculed”—Peggy rocked in bed with the merriment of the thought. “We can make up the most wild faults of all, and please everybody,” she laughed.
“You wouldn’t be gloating over foolish things like that if you knew we’d missed breakfast,” interrupted Katherine. “And, my goodness, woman, there’s the chapel bell!”
The room was a confusion of flying clothes, waving hair-brushes and dodging figures, for some ten minutes thereafter. Then the pink and white cretonne bed covers were smoothed quickly over two couches that had each been made up in a single swooping motion, including sheet, blankets, comforter and all. The fat pillows were stuffed into their cretonne covers and thrown at the head of the beds, and then two well-dressed, well-groomed appearing girls, with their notebooks under their arms, emerged and tore down the broad stairway, flying across the campus lawn, just in time to be shut out of chapel, while the first welling notes of the organ came out to them, as they stood panting at the door.
“You know that girl down the hall who keeps saying ‘all things work together for good,’” said Katherine. “Well——”
“What do you mean?” asked Peggy, but she had already cast one fleeting glance towards the Copper Kettle just outside the campus.
“It’s just a question of whether we can get breakfast in twenty minutes and be in time for our first class,” went on Katherine. “And I’m starved, and I—don’t mind having missed chapel, after all. That’s what I mean.”
Laughing, Peggy caught her arm and the two took a short cut out of campus and across the road to the little tea room.