“I’ll go for her this instant!” volunteered Alice, jumping immediately to her feet. “It is a shame—”
She was off in a moment, skipping down the hall like a happy child.
It was not long before she returned with Daisy Gravers, another Girl Scout of the patrol, and the subject was discussed all over again with a thoroughness that omitted no details. The girls’ only regret was that Ethel Todd, a junior at Bryn Mawr, could not be present to hear all about it.
“I’ll write to her,” said Alice. “Then, if we can all six go—and Mrs. Remington—”
“And maybe Marie Louise,” put in Daisy.
“We’ll need several cars,” concluded Lily, who always did things sumptuously.
“Two ought to be enough,” said Florence. “But say, girls, why couldn’t we leave our planning until Doris’s house-party? Then we’ll all be together, and will know definitely whether or not we can go.”
“But the boys will be such an interruption!” sighed Lily. “You can’t get a thing done with them around.”
“Oh, we’ll shut them out of our conferences,” announced Marjorie, coolly. “We must accustom ourselves to getting along without the opposite sex if we are to make a success of our trip.”
“And yet it is a pity,” remarked Alice, “after all they did for us last summer at the tea-house!”