“And how glad I am to be a junior and back at old Wellington,” finished Molly, squeezing a hand of each friend.
CHAPTER II.
MINERVA HIGGINS.
“There’s only one thing worse than a faculty call-down and that’s a Beta Phi freeze-out,” remarked Judy Kean one Saturday afternoon a few weeks after the opening day of college.
“Why do you bring up disagreeable subjects, Judy? Have you been getting a call-down?” asked Katherine Williams.
“Not your old Aunty Judy,” replied the other. “I’m far too wise for that after two years’ experience, but I saw some one else get one of the most flattening, extinguishing, crushing call-downs ever received by an inmate of this asylum for young ladies. And they do tell me it was followed soon after by another one.”
“Do tell,” exclaimed an interested chorus.
“It was that fresh Miss Higgins from Ohio,” continued Judy, with some enjoyment of the curiosity she was exciting. “You know she’s always trying to attract the attention of the masses——”
“We being the masses,” interrupted Edith.