“We’re going to have a strong team this year.”
“Oh, yes,” continued a classmate, “the Juniors can’t do a thing to us unless Miss Hert—”
“Hush!” exclaimed the first speaker, and turning her head slightly, the second girl saw Clarissa and Pamela approaching, arm in arm.
But as the two friends disappeared in the distance, a third girl, a Junior, said, “Yes, Clarissa’s the girl we want but Alma Stacey is determined—”
“I know that she’s been pretty severe toward Clarissa.”
“Well, Annabel says—”
“Oh, Annabel—”
“Well, Annabel says that she believes that Clarissa would do almost anything after playing that trick on her.”
“What, about Mr. Radcliffe, the so-called Mr. Radcliffe?”
Polly at this moment had passed them a second time, although now without Clarissa.