CHAPTER VI
NEW FRIENDS
Blue Bonnet found Carita up in her room, the centre of an admiring group. Refreshments, here, as in the corridor below, seemed to be in order.
Mary rose from a shoe-box which she was occupying, and offered it to Blue Bonnet. Several other girls rose also and offered their chairs.
Blue Bonnet took the shoe-box and acknowledged the introductions. The girls were all about Carita's own age—between fifteen and sixteen.
Carita reached over and touched the girl nearest her.
"Here's a girl as far away from home as we are, Blue Bonnet. She's from California—Los Angeles."
Blue Bonnet turned her attention for a moment to the girl—Isabel Brooks.
Isabel's eyes were red and swollen. She dropped her head as Blue Bonnet looked at her, and her breast heaved.