“By having people outside of high school belong to it and claiming that it is just a society and not a high school affair.”
“I see. I’ve been trying out Mother and Father on high school sororities and all I can get out of them is surprise that I should mention it at all. ‘How can they have sororities if they are forbidden?’ asks my dear mother!”
“Yes—my father the same—but Mother knows. She just laughs. I didn’t tell her I’d been bid today. Well, now, listen, Betty. We agree that it would be fun. So it would. That’s that. It sounds well to be a Kappa Upsilon and we can go around if we like and be as snooty as any of them. But they’ve dropped Kathryn since the party, for one thing. She did not mention it, though of course she has noticed it, but when I asked her about something that I was in on she didn’t know a thing about it and looked at me as funny—I don’t think it was nice of them, to pay attention and then drop a person like a hot cake.”
“No. That isn’t like Marcella Waite, though.”
“Marcella is a fine girl, but there are two or three that are different. Oh, they’re nice enough. A body could have them for friends, but they take up little things. Kathryn may have said something that wasn’t according to their notion. Kathryn is pretty independent, you know.”
“So am I,” said Betty.
“Yes, but with a little difference, and then you are prominent now in athletics. They all expect you to win something in the girls’ swimming meet and you are going to make the basketball team.”
“Am I?” laughed Betty, “how nice!”
Carolyn laughed too, but went on. “So you are as good as asked, Betty. Now the question is, what are we going to do about it? I want to and I don’t want to—and oh, I must tell you what Louise Madison says. She is over here once in a while, you know, and I was talking to her about sororities.
“She said, ‘Why don’t you wait till you go to the University and join some sororities that amount to something and are real sororities, national and all that?’