{{betlep048.png}} 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- [[48]]