“Cathalina told me that her Aunt Katherine talked last Commencement time with Miss Randolph about some collegiate scholarships to be offered by Cathalina’s father, just as they have in high schools, you know. Now, if that happens, you will know that they weren’t just established for you.”
“No, that would be all right. But Miss Randolph did not say a word about anything like that.”
“Probably they aren’t ready to announce them yet, though you would think that they would in the fall.”
“Not if the idea is new and undecided. I’m working as hard as I can, anyhow, on all my lessons. You ought to get the first prize for scholarship, Isabel. I shall not be a bit jealous of you. I have had too much to make up; but if they give several scholarships I ought to get one, I think.”
Betty had been up in Canada with her mother during the vacation, and came back with stories of skating, skiing, and all sorts of winter sports.
“We went on account of my aunt, you know. She is so worried about the boys in France all the time, and is getting thin trying not to show it. But I had the most wonderful time. I know so many of the young folks up there.”
“Didn’t you ’most freeze?” asked Pauline. This was at the first meeting of the Psyche Club in the beginning of the second week of school.
“No, indeed; you dress for it. And I don’t see that it is so much farther north than this, after all.”
“Did your skis get here, all right, girls?” asked Juliet, of Isabel and Virginia.
“Yes. We tried walking on them Saturday. But I don’t see how we are going to do much more than that!”