CHAPTER II
A COUNCIL OF WAR
"What does it all mean? That's the one thing I'd like to know."
Judith Stearns plumped herself down on Ethel Lacey's couch bed with an energy that bespoke her feelings.
"It is as yet beyond the understanding," gloomily conceded Adrienne Dupree.
"You'd better go downstairs and see Mrs. Weatherbee at once, Judy," advised Ethel.
It was a most amazed and indignant trio which had gathered for a council of war in the room belonging to Ethel and Adrienne.
"I'm going to," nodded Judith with some asperity. "I have Jane's telegram here with me. I just stopped for a minute to tell you girls. Why, Jane will be in on that four o'clock train! A nice tale we'll have to tell her!"