While she spoke they had ceased dancing, and Judith fancied she just caught a look of question on the young man's face. This coupled with his inquiry about Jane's father, Judith at once assigned to his knowledge of the scholarship Bobbie had obtained. But even that was not just a correct guess, and it seemed the actual presence of this good looking boy from Yorktown threatened to add new complications to those already surrounding the mysterious freshmen.
Both reached Jane's side as Judith and her partner came up. Judith
presented the much talked of "lovely Ted" and perhaps a part of
Jane's ebullition was attributable to the code shot out from
Judith's flashing eyes. It said plainly:
"Now isn't he lovely? I told you so!"
While Jane remembered her own wish:
"I hope he's big, clumsy, ugly, etc.," and of course he wasn't.
He claimed the dance and presently swept the Golden Girl from her place in the little circle.
"Your cousin?" questioned Judith with a very comprehensive smile. "Bobbie, I never saw a girl blush as you did when a coz whispered into her dancing ear."
Wise, discerning Judith!
Bobbie blushed again, but she was not going to be tricked into telling her secret. Her eyes flickered until they rested on Nettie Brocton.
"I must ask Net for a dance," she said. "I suppose it is perfectly proper for a mere freshie to do so?"