“Oh!” gasped Marjorie. “We can’t do it! Unless somebody answers the advertisement right away.”
“Have you put it in the papers again?” asked Ethel, with her usual display of practicality.
“No, I haven’t,” admitted her room-mate.
“Then I’ll go phone it now!” announced Ethel, leaving the room immediately.
“She certainly is a jewel,” remarked Marjorie, after Ethel had gone.
“Marj,” said Lily, slowly, as if she had been considering the offer she was about to make, “I will give up my vacation if you don’t get any hired help. That will make up for Marie Louise.”
“Really, Lil?” cried Marjorie, jumping up and throwing her arms about her chum. “Do you honestly mean it?”
“Yes, of course I do!”
“But you’ll be too tired to go back to college in the fall!”
“Not if we close the tea-house right after Labor Day as we have planned. I’ll still have two weeks before the term begins.”