“What ‘object’ are we going to have, if Miss Randolph inquires?” she asked.
“What could we have,” asked Lilian, “except to be together and have a good time, and stand by each other and help the other girls all we can?”
“I think she would think that enough,” said Cathalina. “This is just a social club, and of course wherever anything is to be done for the school or anybody we can take hold, too. Father is always quoting, ‘Therefore it is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes,’ when he is talking about our keeping good company.”
“What is that from, Cathalina?”
“Julius Caesar. A speech by Cassius about Brutus, I think.”
“Girls, we haven’t a name yet,” reminded Eloise.
“Greycliff’s Giggling Girls,” suggested Isabel.
“The Grey Cliff-Dwellers.”
“The Helping Hand Club, with a hand for a pin!”
“The Truth Seekers,—with a lantern!”