“Perhaps,” admitted Nan.
“Do let’s be serious,” Bess begged again. “What is the most popular thing among the girls?”
“Those new side-combs!” exclaimed Nan.
“Yes—and I’m going to have a pair just as soon as mother sends me my next spending money.”
“I’ll buy you a pair,” said generous Nan, quickly.
“No, you won’t, silly! I’ll not let you fritter away any of that perfectly splendid five pound note in foolishness.”
“Oh!” responded Nan, drily, much amused to hear Bess Harley so very practical.
The practicality of the discussion might be doubted by anybody save boarding-school girls. Bess quickly proved to her own satisfaction, if not entirely to Nan’s, that the small, “after-hours supper” was the most popular form of entertainment then in vogue at Lakeview Hall.
“You know, Cora Courtney and that crowd are always talking about a strawberry festival that she and Linda Riggs engineered last June. And now they are planning to have another big spread soon in some room on their corridor.”
“Well,” observed Nan, “we won’t be invited to it.”