[CHAPTER IX—A Question of Names]
“May and Bess are to be in the new wing,” Miss Hull said. “Will you girls take them upstairs when you are going up with Daphne and find some of the girls on their corridor. Alice and Kitty will take good care of them, I am sure. Mrs. Hillis and I are going to have a little chat until dinner.”
She dismissed the girls with a nod. Sally turned to Bess Ward.
“Will you come along?” she said, “and we’ll find Alice and Kitty.”
“Are you two going to room together?” Phyllis inquired.
Janet was walking with Daphne. She had gotten as far away as possible from the new twins, for she instinctively disliked them on sight.
“I should say we’re not,” Bess, the fatter of the two, replied. “May and I were figuring to see as little of each other as possible.”
“But why?” Phyllis demanded, surprised.
“Reckon we’re not dying of love for each other,” May explained calmly. “You being a twin could understand, I guess.”
“We can’t understand any such thing,” Janet suddenly flared up.