“That isn’t very nice of you,” and Dolly looked reproachfully at her partner. “Won’t you ask her once, just to please me?”
“I’d do a lot to please you, sister, but B. F. is a little too much. Hello, they’re going to supper. Who’d you come with? Tad or Tod?”
“I’m supposed to have come with Tod. But really my father brought me.”
“I know. It’s all the same. The Brownies picked you up after you got there,—you and Dot. And here comes Tod after you, I must fly to seek my own special.”
Lollie went off, and Tod escorted Dolly to the supper room. The feast was not grand, as High School affairs are limited, but everybody enjoyed it. The D’s and the Browns found a place in a pleasant alcove, and were joined by Celia Ferris and the Rawlins girls and a lot more of their particular friends.
Dolly noticed Bernice Forbes, sitting apart from the rest. With her was a boy Dolly did not know.
“Who is he?” she whispered to Joe Collins.
“Dunno. Some chap the Forbes girl brought. Of course no Berwick boy would ask her.”
“Why not?”
“Stick. Can’t say boo to a goose!”