"What for? why I never heard of such a thing!" exclaimed Nora.
"Nor I!" cried Brenda, "at a Harvard game!"
"Isn't it a Princeton game, too," asked Belle, "two or three of the boys I used to know in New York are in that team, one of them is a kind of cousin of mine."
"Oh," said Nora, "I didn't know that you thought that people had to be so very devoted to cousins."
Even Belle herself could not help smiling at this, which was very appropriate, following so closely, as it did, her own remarks about Julia.
"You can see yourself that this is different," she answered. "I should call it very impolite if there were no orange flags shown at the game."
"Well, you have the most ridiculous ideas, hasn't she, Brenda?"
Brenda nodded assent, and Nora continued, "I never knew that people had to think that about politeness in college games; why it's a duty to do everything you can to help your own side——"
"I never said that Harvard was my side," interrupted Belle, "didn't I tell you that I have a cousin on the Princeton team."
"You'd better not say anything of that kind to Philip, or to Edith, either, they are both perfectly devoted to Harvard, and they expect their party to give great encouragement to the Harvard team. Why, Belle, I cannot imagine your doing anything else."