“‘The shades of night are falling fast,’ Aline, but you can see my favorite hilltop and a few pink and lavender streaks from the sunset. Going to society meeting?”
“Yes; aren’t you?”
“Oh, yes. I have too many lessons for next week to do it, but I have tried staying home from the meeting and could not accomplish anything.”
“So have I. I work better, anyhow, when the pressure is on and I haven’t time to get what I’m getting!”
“Me, too!”
“Well, Ann,—I suspect that you think I’ve taken my time about deciding whether to join the Bats or not.”
Ann’s heart was in her mouth,—so she afterward declared. “Better be slow than come to a wrong decision,” she said. “And you have to get acquainted with our girls, too,—the ones in the upper classes, at least. You accepted our invitation to the tea at Polly’s tomorrow, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” replied Aline, “but,——”
Ann’s heart sank again.