She hurried out, and Marjorie and Lily resumed their unpacking.
CHAPTER III
THE SOPHOMORE RECEPTION
When the four freshmen left Marjorie’s room, and walked out of the dormitory to the campus where Ethel Todd and Marian Guard, another sophomore members of ΦΑΒ, were waiting with the camera, their whole bearing expressed pride, as if they wanted to say to the rest of the school, “We have been singled out by the sorority as the four most eligible freshmen!”
Before they reached Ethel and Marian, the former called out, “Hurry up, girls! We can’t wait all day!” Then, turning to Marian, she said in a low voice, “Those girls are entirely too sure of themselves.” As they came closer, she said aloud, “I always photograph a group of girls from each class to send to mother. But I wish we could get some more girls into this picture.”
Ethel looked away for a minute, as if she were thinking. She turned to her room-mate. “Ruth,” she said, “who was that girl I met you with yesterday?”
“Was she tall and pretty?”
“Yes, she’s tall, and I suppose you might call her pretty: she has light hair and brown eyes!”
“That’s the girl I mean! Couldn’t you go get her, if I wait a couple of minutes?”