"No, I didn't," Lois said; "that is, I can't recognize them from your description."
"Wasn't it a shame your mother couldn't come, Betty?" Polly said. "But, of course, Dick is here," she teased.
"No, he's not," Lois laughed. "I'd have seen his red head in the crowd if he had been."
"He's coming with John Frisby and Ange's sister and brother-in-law," Betty said, without paying any attention to Lois' teasing.
"There'll be at least twenty couples for the dance," Polly said. "That means the room won't look half empty, the way it did last year."
"I hope there's enough sherbet," Evelin said; "boys always eat twice as much as you expect them to."
"Well, there are cakes enough to feed a whole army," Dorothy Lansing added. "I know, for I ordered them."
"The orchestra is here. Oh, bother that buckle! it's sure to come off," Helen exclaimed.
"Has the sherbet come, does anybody know?" Angela asked.
"They promised it by six o'clock," Dot Mead replied; "it's surely here by now."