The Seniors accepted the Middlers’ fun in good part. Even Mary forgave Elizabeth the wearing of her new gown.
“Oh, well,” Mary had exclaimed after the affair was over, and a group of girls had gathered in her room, “‘Every dog has his day.’ We had ours last year; and next year you will pay the fiddler for a new set of Middlers.”
“If they don’t pay before that,” said Landis, sententiously.
“It’s a long lane that has no turning,” said Min.
“But we will leave before the turn comes,” laughed Elizabeth.
“Jump the fence and take to the fields,” was Elizabeth’s reply.
“If I wear my orange gown to-night will I look like Nancy?” asked Nora O’Day.
“I hope not,” said Nancy, while a chorus of strong negatives arose from the other girls.
“Then I’ll wear it,” said Nora.