Polly put her arm around her.
"Tired?" she said, happily, "why, Aunt Kate, I feel as if I could dance all night."
"So do I, mother darling," Lois insisted.
"Well, that's very probably just what you will do," Mrs. Farwell answered with a resigned sigh.
Bob and Jim, after a very hasty dinner, hurried to their rooms to change their clothes, and were back before either of the girls were ready, for Mrs. Farwell had insisted upon an hour's rest. When they did join the boys, they were looking their best. They had on the same yellow and green dresses that they had worn at Fanny's party.
Bob and Jim were secretly delighted. There is always a good-natured rivalry at a Junior Prom and they both felt that the girls' charming appearance gave them a decided advantage over the other men.
When they arrived at the Union the dance had already started, and the floor was crowded with people. Lois and Polly were so carried away by excitement that the whole evening passed in a whirl of delight.
Mrs. Farwell had been right the day before when she had promised her that Bob would see that they had plenty of partners, for Jim and he brought up all their friends and introduced them.
As Polly said afterward, in answer to Betty's questions.
"There were so many of them that I couldn't begin to remember their names. I just called them all Mr. Er—"