"Was it the whole class?" persisted Zee.
"Why are you asking so many questions? What difference does it make to you who went? Whatever made you think of the Sunday-school class anyhow?"
"We met little Nora Gordon on the street to-day, and she asked if you went nutting, and who went along, and I said Mabel and Frances and Gloria and Annabelle and Sara and the college boys. And she said, 'Then it was their Sunday-school class, and they didn't invite my sister and she feels awful.'"
"Oh, mercy," said Rosalie, "we tried to keep it from her—that is, we didn't suppose she would find out—anyhow, it was a college crowd, and Alicia Gordon does not go to college."
"Did all the rest of the class go except Alicia?" asked Doris.
"Well, yes, it isn't a very big class, you know, and we all go to college, except Alicia. She works. But is was a regular college crowd—and the boys don't like Alicia, she never has a date with anybody. She is kind of poky."
"You knew it would hurt her feelings if she found it out, didn't you?"
"Well, perhaps, but we didn't intend she should find it out. I wonder who told her? It was a nasty little trick, and if you did it, Miss Zee—"
"I didn't. What did I know about your old picnic? And when I saw how Nora felt, I told her over and over it was a college affair, didn't I, Treasure?"