They saw the girls back to Seddon Hall and after repeated good-bys, drove off down the hill.
Polly and Lois watched the lamp on the carriage until it disappeared around a bend in the road.
“All over,” sighed Lois, unwillingly coming back to earth. “And we missed study hour, and there’s a Latin test tomorrow.”
“Oh, bother Latin, we can get up early in the morning and cram. Lo, your mother and father are the dearest people I ever met. I mean it, truly,” said Polly.
Lois looked at her intently. They were on the porch and it was dark—
“Don’t you like Bob a little tiny bit, too?” she asked mischievously.
And Polly answered with provoking indifference:
“Why, of course.”
[CHAPTER XVI—GHOSTS]
“Do you think you passed?” asked Betty, joining Angela and Polly in the schoolroom corridor. It was the third day of examination week and the Freshmen had just finished the Literature exam.