CHAPTER V
ROSAMOND INSISTS
"What is it, Norn?" asked Patricia rather anxiously.
She eyed the note with an unspoken fear that it might be a message from her new instructor canceling her enrolment, though Elinor's face did not show any consternation as she swiftly ran her eye over the brief sheet.
"Of all things!" she murmured with an amused smile, and then read more carefully, breaking into a ripple of laughter as she finished.
"You certainly have charmed this Rosamond Merton, Miss Pat," she said with a fond look at the amazed Patricia. "Listen to this."
Patricia's look of amazement grew as Elinor read. Rosamond Merton invited them to tea with her in her rooms that afternoon, very prettily insisting that the small sister whose name she thought was Julia, might make one of the party, since it was to be merely a cosy cup of tea to better acquaintance.
"I must say she writes very agreeably," commented Elinor, scanning the lines critically.