"Nowhere," answered Mavis.
"Nowhere!" echoed Miss Potter disdainfully, while the other occupants of the room ejaculated "My!"
"Haven't you a 'boy'?" asked Miss Potter.
"A what?"
"A young man then," said Miss Potter, as she made a deft line beneath her left eye with an eye pencil.
"I don't know any young men," remarked Mavis.
"Hadn't you better be quick and pick up one?" asked Miss Impett.
"I don't care to make chance acquaintances," answered Mavis.
To her surprise, her remark aroused the other girls' ire; they looked at Mavis and then at one another in astonishment.
"I defy anyone to prove that I'm not a lady," cried Miss Impett, as she bounced out of the room.