“Very!” cried the teacher tartly. She was about to say more, when somebody called her from a rear door. She hesitated, then walked away to answer the summons.
“What an escape!” breathed Edna.
“The next time, think before you throw,” said Rose-Mary.
“Indeed, I will,” was the quick reply. And then, as the crowd passed on, Edna continued: “But where in the world is Dorothy? I haven’t seen her since she came along dragging that dirty youth into the sacred precincts of Glen.”
“Hush!” ordered Wanda Volk, “that was the first boy I have seen since I came here. Don’t scare him off the premises.”
“Don’t!” followed in the usual girlish chorus.
“But I was talking of Dorothy,” continued Edna.
“She was at the tea table,” Cologne remarked.
“But left before jelly,” added Adele Thomas.
“And Tavia ate her share,” Lena Berg declared.