serge skirt toward Prep Hall. Styles could come and styles could go but Mrs. Cole's dark gored skirts with tails and her wh

re? Why didn't I know? How co

ee if it's I; that I'm actually here in the flesh. I

e I go mad and

him plenty about that, although they don't know I did. Oh boy, was it good? Mother said it was gambling of the worst kind. Father said she must listen to reason. Fi

n inspi

mething and talking about how happy you were going to be here. I know that just popped in Mother's head.

, they hugged each oth

urned and s

make public display

that law down a thousand times. She looked at Sue and

t 207 but Mrs. C

rs. Cole, but

el

m in

ight, Mimi.

s Sue, Sue

ou in 321. It is a single room and I hope you

hurried after them. "Mrs. Cole, please, Sue and I want to room together. I don't have a roommat

to be together," Sue took

mesickness and cliques-we want neither. Next year if you still feel this way, we'll see. Besides, Mimi, you have a roommate. I have assigned C

he and Sue closed the door of 321 behind Mrs. Cole, they put t

you, I won't stay in this

7-209 and see who has moved in. I am in a suite, the only one in Prep Hall, and if I don't like the other three gir

and stumbled against a trunk in the dark. The hall light shown in through the

was more than she expected. Delighted as she was she felt strangely uneasy. Mimi backed away from the trunk and into the hall in

sound was pleasing to her. "I wonder which o

ward the parl

instead of being grouped by classes as they were when she left, were massed in one large group. The new preps who had cl

Betsy, she knew, had what it took-pep,

er, Mimi was conscious of lowered voices behind her. Two fac

s a born leader," on

he resolved to show them. "Actions," Cissy ha