ll I thought her delightful, but she has turned out to be
anything but agreeable. She barely nodded to me this morning. I believe
she is developing snobbish tendencies, which is a great mistake. Deliver
me from snobs! We have very few of them at Overton, thank goodness."

But Grace could not help thinking that somewhere in the college
community lived a girl who possessed a fault far greater than that of
being a snob.

CHAPTER XII

THE SUMMONS

The prospective dinner at Vinton's at which Ruth Denton and Arline
Thayer were to be guests of honor drove the unpleasant incident of the
morning from Grace's mind for the time being. She had determined to keep
her interview with Miss Duncan a secret from her friends. If it had
involved only herself, she might possibly have told Anne of it, but
since it concerned some one else, Grace's fine sense of honor forbade
her making even Anne her confidant in the matter. She could not help
speculating a little concerning the identity of the other girl. She had
not the remotest idea as to who she might be. Whoever she was, she could
not have realized what a dishonorable thing she had done, was Grace's
charitable reflection. She wondered what Mabel would think when Miss
Duncan asked her to identify the theme as the one Grace had written
during that evening in Holland House.

"I'm going to stop thinking of it for the rest of the day," declared
Grace half aloud, as she dressed for dinner late that afternoon. She
started guiltily, glancing quickly to where Anne sat mending a tiny tear
in her white silk blouse. Anne, who was fully occupied with her mending,
made no comment. She was so used to Grace's habit of thinking aloud that
she had no idle curiosity regarding her friend's thoughts. Whatever
Grace wished her to know she would hear in due season.

"Miriam and Elfreda are not going with us, you know," said Grace as they
were about to leave their room.

"I didn't know it," commented Anne. "Why did they change their minds?"

"Miriam thinks you and I can do more toward restoring peace without her
and Elfreda. She suspects that Ruth will satisfy Arline's curiosity and
at the same time appease her wrath by telling what she refused to tell
that other night, provided there are not too many listeners."

"What a wise girl Miriam is!" exclaimed Anne admiringly. "I never
thought of that."

"Nor I," admitted Grace, "until she mentioned it. Then I saw the wisdom
of it."

"Where are we