"Sara Wheeler" (the thinnest girl in the class), "is going into the food business, but will eat up the profits. However, she'll weigh two hundred pounds before she goes bankrupt....
"Sue Emery, on the contrary, will finally succeed in reducing her weight—when she gets away from these girls and stops talking about it, instead of doing it—until she becomes Hollywood's star dancer....
"Linda Carlton and Louise Haydock—the double l's, we call them, because they are always together—will both marry wealthy men and become the society leaders of Spring City...."
At these words, Linda's Aunt Emily nudged Louise's mother, and smiled.
"That would suit us, wouldn't it, Mrs. Haydock?" she asked.
"Just what we want for our girls!" nodded her companion, in satisfaction.
It was over at last, the fun and the excitement, the class-day that the girls would keep in their memories for the rest of their lives. Hot, but happy, the graduates came down from the platform to find their friends and their families. Some of them wanted to linger, to talk things over, but Linda Carlton was anxious to get away. It had been wonderful to receive that beautiful bracelet, but somehow it would spoil it to talk about it.
And, in spite of all her happiness, there was a little hurt in her heart. Her father hadn't come home for his only child's graduation!
She came to where her aunt was standing, and put her arm through hers.