Janet didn’t answer at once, but as they reached the bus, she said, “I think I’ve had about all of the insinuations I can stand from either one of them.”
Helen smiled. “That’s a help, for I feel the same way.” She turned toward the other girls, who were putting their baggage in their car.
“We may see you in Clarion before college starts this fall,” she said.
“Thanks for all your help,” flipped Cora, seating herself behind the wheel. “I’m sure we’ll enjoy ourselves in Hollywood. We may run into you someplace.”
She threw in the gears and the car lurched away along the dusty road that wound through the hills to the main highway some miles away.
“Wasn’t she nice and cordial?” smiled Helen as she turned back to Janet.
“Cora hasn’t changed a bit and I don’t suppose she will. What fun she could have if she’d only be a little less selfish,” said Janet.
HIGH PRAISE