“Now where is the one who told you that?” Leila glared about her, as if determined to hunt out the offender.
“You mustn’t be too personal.” Phil put her hand to her lips. Shielding them cup-fashion she said in a loud whisper: “Keep quiet. She mustn’t suspect the reason we invited her.”
“I doubt if she ever finds out,” was Leila’s satirical assurance.
“Poor, benighted soph.” Vera turned a pitying look on the primitive, untamed soph who returned it with a bold wink.
“She seems to understand a few things,” Muriel made equally sarcastic comment.
“I’ll guarantee not to ditch the car, even if I do have an untamed air,” chuckled Gussie. “Come on, Travelers. No place like home when home’s a good place. Six to a car. Come, choose your east. Come, choose your west.”
The Travelers obeyed the call, laughingly dividing themselves into two groups. Robin, Marjorie, Muriel, Phil, Lucy and Vera took possession of Vera’s car. Leila, Jerry, Kathie, Barbara, Ronny and Gussie fell to Gussie’s big high-powered touring car. They were all in an uproariously merry mood as their frequent peals of laughter went to testify.
Phil magnanimously volunteered to forego the delights of re-union and drive the car so that Robin could tell the girls the campus news. Lucy elected to ride on the front seat beside her. “Such a noble act deserves the reward of my company. Besides, I’ll hear the same news later. There’ll be at least half a dozen editions of it,” she slyly prophesied.
Marjorie’s first eager question: “How did everything go?” set Robin off on an account of the calamity that had overtaken the dormitory girls on Thanksgiving morning. She had just reached the point in her narrative where she and Barbara and Phil had piled the umbrellas belonging to the dormitory girls into the automobile and started for the inn when Phil brought the car up in front of Wayland Hall and called out in stentorian tones: “All out. Step lively.”
“I’ll have to tell you the rest when we are settled again up in Marjorie’s room. This is the Tragedy of Page minus Dean, in two acts. Wait till you hear the sensational climax of Act One,” Robin animatedly informed the absorbed listeners.