committee,” airily and decisively said the
senior, “but I might play for you some time.”

“Thank you,” said Betty, feeling that she
should never want to ask Clara, yet knowing
that she should not feel that way. The mention
of the sorority, of course, was to impress a
non-sorority girl. Clara was not a Kappa Upsi-
lon, and Betty really did not know to what
sorority she did belong.

Betty had not noticed that another girl had
come up behind Clara, evidently in time to hear
most of what was said, but now one of Clara's
senior friends leaned over to say, “Take the
last bite of that pie, Brad. I want you and
Clara to help start one of the games.”

“After this dinner?” queried Brad, springing
up, for Clara had risen. And as Betty still sat
by Chet, she heard Clara say something in a
low tone to the senior girl, who said with the
evident purpose of being heard, “The nerve of
her mentioning it at all!”

It was not pleasant to Betty, who wished,
indeed, that she had employed “more sense.”
Probably it _was_ “nerve,” but she had not meant
it so. She did not speak of it to Chet and entered
the games happily enough, having learned a
little lesson, however. She had not known Clara
well enough to bring up the subject; and prob-

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