CHAPTER XVIII
A DRESS REFORM AND A NASSAU REUNION
Betty Wales came home one lovely afternoon in May looking very sober indeed for her. But her face brightened instantly when she found a note from Ethel stuck in her mirror.
“Dear little sister“—she read—
“Will you and all the Nassau girls come for an al fresco supper with me to-morrow night? My balcony has a view of Paradise, and the sun will be going down at six. Will you ask the others?
“Yours, in a hurry,
“Ethel.”
“How dear of her!” thought Betty, and ran out to give Madeline her invitation and incidentally to find out what al fresco meant.
“Oh!” she sighed in great relief when Madeline had explained that it was Italian for out-of-doors. “I thought perhaps she wanted us to come in costume or have quotations from Shakespeare or something. I’m glad it’s nothing learned like that. Madeline, are you a junior usher?”