"Oh, don't, Bobby!" begged Dora Lockwood. "You are so reckless."
"Just the same, I feel it in my bones that Hester is going to kick over the traces," said Bobby grimly.
"If only Margit Salgo had been allowed to have the part," groaned Dorothy.
"It's Gee Gee's fault if the play is a failure," snapped Bobby.
Never had the disagreeable teacher at Central High been so little liked as at this time. They blamed Miss Carrington more than they did Hester.
As the party of troubled girls left the school-house on this particular afternoon, Lily Pendleton ran after them.
"What do you think has happened?" she cried.
"It's something bad, of course," groaned Nellie Agnew.
"Who is hurt?" asked Laura.
"It isn't that," said Lily. "But poor Purt Sweet!"