“You see,” Carol went on obligingly, “last night when we were at your house Janet and I saw, in the mirror, your Aunt standing behind us in the doorway. She thought we hadn’t seen her and that is exactly what we wanted her to think. We put our plan into action then. We said what we did because we knew your Aunt was listening.”
Janet made a wry face. “We also knew how she felt about us going with you. She didn’t want to send you to the college we were going to.”
“So you said you were going to Stonecliff to make her change her mind about me,” Phyllis said happily. “Well, it worked. I’m off for Briarhurst the first week in September.”
“Miss Relso was telling me about the Omega Chi Sorority house at Briarhurst,” Gale put in, “and from what she says it will be wonderful if we could get into the sorority and live there. I’m going to write them tonight.”
“The Omega what?” Carol asked again. “Would it be safe to sleep in a house with that name?”
“The house isn’t called that,” Gale laughed. “That is the Greek name of the sorority.”
“Carol wouldn’t appreciate that,” Janet put in. “Well, are we going to play tennis or aren’t we?”
“We are!” declared Valerie and Madge in the same breath.
However, Gale at the last minute decided she didn’t want to play tennis. She walked up the hill to Phyllis’ home with her and there they talked for a while until Phyllis had to go in. Then Gale went slowly down to her home again.
She was seated on the porch, lazily swinging to and fro, watching night darken the world slowly and relentlessly when a tennis ball was thrown at her. It was aimed perfectly and hit her squarely but without hurting. She sat up with a jerk.