While they were disposing themselves in the two automobiles for the ride
to Hamilton College, the sound of high-pitched voices announced the
arrival on the scene of the Sans. Three of the juniors who had elected
to meet them had driven their own cars to the station. Thus the
illustrious Sans did not have to depend on the station's taxicabs.
While Leila would have liked to drive off in a hurry rather than
encounter at such close range the girls she so heartily despised, she
moved, instead, with the utmost deliberation. She was just climbing into
the driver's seat when the small but noisy procession of young women
came opposite to her car. Vera sat ready to start, her slender hands
resting idly on the wheel as she waited for Leila's signal. The
occupants of both cars, save for the freshman from Baltimore, were
making a commendable effort to appear impersonal. Miss Severn, of
Baltimore, was innocently interested in the newcomers from the fact that
they were also students of Hamilton College.
Aside from considerable laughter, which sounded too pointed to be
impersonal, the party of arriving juniors strolled past. Among the last
came Leslie Cairns. She had insisted on walking with Elizabeth Walbert,
greatly to Natalie's vexation. As she lounged past Leila's car she cast
an insolent glance at the Irish girl. Leila returned it with an
expression so inscrutably Celtic that Leslie hastily removed her gaze to
Jerry, who sat beside Leila. She glared an intensity of ill-feeling at
Jerry, which the latter longed to return, but did nothing worse than
look blank.
Leila drove her car almost savagely around the station yard and out into
the wide avenue. Sight of the Sans, particularly Leslie Cairns, had put
her momentarily in a bad humor. Her virile Irish temperament forbade her
to do other than love or hate with all her strength of being. She hated
Leslie as energetically as she adored Marjorie.
"That Miss Walbert makes me sick," was Jerry's incensed comment as they
bowled smoothly along the avenue. "I'd like to know just what happened
to Marjorie. Of course she will tell us later. The idea of that little
shrimp marching past us as though we were a collection of sign posts,
particularly after we had treated her so decently. It's a good thing she
showed her mettle from the start. Did you notice the way she snubbed my
freshman?"
"I did. How, may I ask, do you happen to be out here with me instead of
sitting faithfully in the tonneau beside your find?" quizzed Leila.
"Oh, Katherine and Lucy took her away from me. I guess I scared her. She
is in Vera's car with them. If you don't enjoy my society, stop the
buzz buggy and I will get out and walk. I may lose a pound or two, even
if my feelings are hurt."
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