."

"I'm sorry you're not coming here," said Miss Ferris kindly. "Couldn't
you manage it?"

"Yes, but the--the orange seems to cut better the other way," said
Betty. "That isn't a good figure, but perhaps you can see what it
means."

* * * * *

It was worth most of what it had cost to see Helen's face when she heard
the news. "Oh Betty, it's too good to be true," she cried, "but are you
sure you want me?"

"Haven't I given up the Hilton to be with you?" said Betty, with her
face turned the other way.

Alice was disappointed, but she would be just as happy with Constance
Fayles. She found more "queer" things to like at Harding every day, and
she considered Betty Wales one of the queerest and one of the nicest.

Eleanor pleased Betty by offering no objection to the change of plan.
"Only you needn't think that you can get rid of me as easily as all
this," she said. "I shall camp down in the registrar's office until she
says that 'under the circumstances,' which is her pet phrase, she will
let me change my application to the Belden. By the way, Betty, Jean
Eastman wants to see you after chapel to-morrow. She said she'd be in
number five."

After "last chapel," with its farewell greetings, that for all but the
seniors invariably ended with a cheerful "See you next September," and
the interview with Jean, in which the class president offered rather
unintelligible apologies for "the stupid misunderstanding that we all
got into," Betty went back to the house to get her bags and meet
Katherine, who was going on the same train. Some of the girls had
already gone, and none of them were in but Rachel, who was perched in a
front window watching anxiously for a dilatory expressman, and
Katherine, who was frantically stowing the things that would not go in
her trunk into an already well-filled suit-case.

"Well, it's all over," said Betty, sitting down on the window seat
beside Rachel.

"Wish it were," muttered Katherine, shutting the case and sitting down
on it with a thud.

"No, it's only well begun," corrected Rachel.

"A lot of things are over anyway," persisted Betty. "Just think how much
has happened since last September!"

"Jolly nice things too," said Katherine cheerfully. She had quite
unexpectedly succeeded in fastening the lock.

"Weren't they!" agreed Betty heartily. "But I guess the nicest thing
about it is what you said, Rachel--that it's 'to be continued in o