Dating (Social customs) -- Juvenile fiction; Friendship -- Juvenile fiction; Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction
During their senior year in college Marjorie and Robin had turned their
attention to the giving of plays, concerts and other pleasing
entertainments. These amusements had been welcomed by the Hamilton
students and the two successful promoters had reaped a goodly sum of
money for the dormitory project. The Nineteen Travelers, a confidential
little band which included Marjorie and Robin, had also contributed
several hundred dollars to the dormitory fund by the curtailing of
personal expenses, elimination of all but a few luxuries and the
practicing of self-denial in the matter of dinners and spreads.
The presentation by Miss Susanna Hamilton of the site for the dormitory
had made the way clear for the erection of the building in the not far
distant future.
At the time of her graduation Marjorie had been fully aware that hers
and Robin’s beloved enterprise would require their presence on the
campus the following autumn. The real work of their project was yet to
come. Robin was free to return to Hamilton. Marjorie had not been
certain that her general and her captain would be willing that she
should remain away from home another winter. She had left college for
Sanford unable to assure her classmates who were to return the next
autumn as post graduates that she would be then among them.
“So my prophetic Celtic bones did not lie,” Leila said with teasing good
humor. “Ah, Beauty, but was not Leila the wise Irish woman? Did I not
prophesy that your general and your captain would be sending you back to
college?”
“Of course you did. Your prophetic Celtic bones told you how utterly
unselfish they were,” Marjorie returned warmly. “We didn’t exchange a
word about my coming back as a P. G. while they were on the campus
during Commencement week. One evening soon after we were home Jerry and
Lucy came over and General said he had very important orders for the
Army. He read us a ridiculous notice, ordering us to report at Hamilton
College for post graduate duty, not later than October first, by order
of General and Captain Dean. Jerry and Lucy made such a racket over it
that General threatened to lock them in the guard house for boisterous
conduct.”
Leila listened, immensely tickled by Mr. Dean’s army tactics. Marjorie
continued to tell her of Jerry and her doings. She said nothing,
however, of Jerry’s brother. Entirely fancy free, Marjorie had never
spoken confidentially of Hal to any girl save Constance. Jerry would not
have ventured to ask Marjorie a personal question concerning him,
intimate as the two girls were.
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