Maud arrived in the afternoon. Mrs. Banks came with her, but acting under Mrs. Baird's advice, she did not spend the night. Lois and Betty and Polly took charge of them both for the afternoon. They showed them the school and grounds and, after Mrs. Banks left, they introduced Maud to all the girls.
Maud met them with a calm indifference, and looked them over with appraising eyes. Those she liked, she talked to. The others she ignored. The three girls were completely baffled.
"What'll we do with her?" Betty demanded. "Does she always act like this?" They were in the Assembly Hall before dinner. "Do you see anybody you'd like to meet?" she asked Maud a few minutes later.
"No, I don't," came the answer, without hesitation.
"Maud, you're too funny for words. Tell us what do you think of Seddon Hall?"
Maud gazed at her steadily for a moment.
"Oh, I like it no end," she said, warmly. "Why?"
"Nothing," Polly hastened to say, "we just thought perhaps you didn't."
The bell rang for dinner.