“She likes Genevieve. They are really more congenial, and you’ll see her getting over this,—if for no other reason than that Suzanne is sister to a very handsome brother.”
“Why, Ann!”
“That is rather terrible for me to say, isn’t it? But ‘mark my words’,—and it will make Suzanne feel better. Trust Miss Tudor, too, to do something to fix Genevieve and Madeline. For all Madeline said what she did to me, she wasn’t the least bit cast down.”
“We are going to have a lot of company here, Ann.”
“Indeed we are. We’ll have to plan, to get all our lessons in, because of the rushing, and we’ll begin with Aline!”
“Aline? You haven’t suddenly taken leave of your senses, have you, my dear room-mate?”
“Not yet, Marta. Aline’s mother was a Beta Alpha Tau. Her mother died not so very long ago, it seems, and Aline won’t hear to going into the Sig-Eps. Naturally, she hasn’t offered herself to the Bats, and I wondered why in the world the Sig-Eps hadn’t initiated her long ago. Eleanor herself told me!”
At that astonishing statement, Marta almost gasped. “It behooves us to get right at it, then,” she said, “and we must find out about the other new girls right away. There was a fine looking girl at dinner with Genevieve. She was rather over-dressed, but looked like a girl of some force, and Genevieve was being too nice to her for words.”
Ann nodded assent “I saw her,” she said. “But we’ll get in touch with the senior girls tomorrow and ask what they know and what they want us to do. I know that they will want Aline, as much as if we had had a meeting.”
“By the way, did you hear Katherine tell me that a meeting is called for tomorrow afternoon, right after lessons, after last hour, and that meanwhile we are to find out all we can about the new girls. We can’t take many in this year, you know, because our number is so nearly filled.”