"Yes, I've barely seen it. I went out the other day to look at the golf course. The golf wave seems to be sweeping the country." "Do you play?" "A little; we had a course near the college that we used." "You college girls are awfully athletic. I'm crazy about golf. I thought it might be good sport to ask a few girls and some of the men to go to the club for supper,--we really couldn't have dinner there, you know. This heavenly weather won't last always. We'll get a drag and Captain Wheelock will see that I don't drive you into trouble. He's a very safe whip, you know, if I'm not; and we'll come back in the moonlight. This includes your guests, of course." "That will be delightful," said Evelyn. "I'm sure we'll all be glad to go. I'm anxious to have the girls see as much as possible. I want them to be favorably impressed, and this will be an event." When Mabel had taken herself off, Evelyn returned to the tower where Belle Marshall and Annie Warren awaited her. These young women were lounging in the low window-seat exchanging reminiscences of college days. "It was Mabel Margrave," explained Evelyn. "She's asked us to go coaching with her to the Country Club and have supper there and I took the liberty of accepting for you." "What's she like?" asked Annie. "Tyringham," said Evelyn succinctly. "Oh! your words affect me strangely, child," drawled Belle, casting up her eyes in a pretended imitation of the Tyringham manner. "How are her _a's_?" asked Annie. "Broader than the Atlantic. I think she wants to patronize me. She's a real Tyringham in that she thinks us college women very slow." "Well, they do have a style," said Belle, sighing. "You can always tell one of Miss Alton's girls." "Yes, there's no doubt about that," retorted Annie coolly. She had taken her education seriously and was disposed to look down upon the product of fashionable boarding schools. "Cheer up! The worst is yet to come," declared Evelyn. "You'd better not encourage the idea here that we are different from young women of any other sort. I've got to live here! I'm going to be pretty lonely too, the first thing you know, after you desert me." "You'll have plenty of chances to root for the college," suggested Belle. "You won't have anything like the time I'll have. In Virginia we have traditions that I've got to reconcile myself to, in some way; out here, you can start even." "Yes, and we have the Tyringham type, and a few of the convent sort, and a few of the co-eds to combat." "Well, there's nothing so radically wrong with the co-eds, is there?" asked Annie, who believed in education for its own sake. "Only the ones that want to go in for politics and that sort of thing. There's a lady--I said lady--doctor of philosophy here in town who casually invited me to become a candidate for school commissioner a few weeks ago."