The game became a scramble. Mimi hated to see the jerseys of the players get muddy. Soon you could not tell one team from the other. Time and time again the referee called time out to dry the ball. It was a mess. Mimi didn’t know the final score for sure until she asked Jack. She knew Vandy won and for that she was glad.
“We won’t be able to make any time driving back to Sheridan,” Jack said when they were safe from the shower in a taxi.
“That means we’d better start as soon as we can throw our things together,” Dit said.
“Couldn’t stay over?”
“No, I promised Mrs. Cole we’d be back tonight and also that I would not ask for extended permission. That’s the usual thing and Dr. Barnes doesn’t like it.”
“Who minds a little thing like rain?” Mimi asked. “Betsy and I don’t. We’ll be ‘singing in the rain’ all the way home.”
And they did.
They sang until they were so hoarse they could hardly whisper by the time they arrived at Sheridan. Jack was afraid they had taken cold.
“We aren’t hoarse, Mrs. Cole,” Betsy said later. “It’s so late we are whispering and trying not to disturb.”
Mrs. Cole hustled them off giving them time for only the briefest thanks and goodbyes to Jack.