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Example in this ebookCHAPTER I.COMMENCEMENT WEEK.Every door and every window of Miss Allen’s Boarding School stood wide open in hospitality to welcome the guests of the graduating class. For it was Commencement Week, and visitors were coming from far and wide to see the exercises.Upstairs in the dormitories, confusion reigned everywhere. Trunks, half-packed, their lids wide open and their trays on the floor, lined the hallways; dresses were lying about in profusion on chairs and beds; great bunches of flowers filled the vases and pitchers; and rooms were bereft of their hangings and furnishings. Girls, girls everywhere! In party dresses or kimonos they rushed about their rooms or bent over their trunks in the hall. Everybody seemed in mad haste to accomplish the impossible.Marjorie Wilkinson and Lily Andrews were no less excited than the other seniors. They not only shared in the mad whirl of social events and class activities, but as officers they were responsible for their success. When dances and picnics were to be arranged, studying and packing were out of the question for them.But that afternoon there had been a slight lull in their program, and both girls were in their room, trying to make up for lost time. Marjorie, who had been struggling for half an hour with a buckle and a satin pump, finally put it aside in disgust.“Lil, I can’t sew that thing on, so as to have it look right! Every needle breaks, and the stitches show besides!”“Couldn’t you wear them without the buckles?” suggested her room-mate, looking up from the floor, where she was kneeling over a bureau drawer.“No, the marks would show where the buckles were before,” replied Marjorie, in the most mournful tone.“Then don’t bother!” returned Lily, cheerfully. “Wear your silver slippers and stockings.”“With pink georgette? Do you think it would look all right?”“Yes—it would be stunning!”“Just as you say,” agreed Marjorie, much relieved to have the matter disposed of. “I wish I had thought of that before—and not wasted a precious half hour with those old slippers!”Lily stood up, holding a pile of clothing over her arm. She started for the trunk in the hall, but paused at the door.“Marj, you better ‘waste’ another half hour in a nap, or you’ll be dead. You know as well as I do that tonight’s the biggest thing of the year for us.”Marjorie smiled contentedly at this reference to the senior dance, which, as Lily had said, was the crowning event of their social career at Miss Allen’s. Later in life, Commencement itself would stand out most clearly in their memory; but now, at the age of eighteen, nothing could exceed the dance in importance. And yet Marjorie was conscious of an indefinable regret about the whole affair, as if already she knew that the realization could not equal the anticipation. The cause of this feeling could be traced to her partner. A month ago, on the spur of the moment, she had invited Griffith Hunter, a Harvard man whom she had met several years before at Silvertown, and whose acquaintance she had kept. But she was sorry not to have asked John Hadley, an older and truer friend.“Tonight will be wonderful!” she said; “only, do you know, Lil, I do wish I had asked John instead of Griffith.”“I knew you’d be sorry, Marj!” said Lily. “I never could understand why you asked Griffith.”“I guess it’s because he’s so stunning looking, and I knew he would make a hit with the girls.”“But John Hadley is good looking, too!”“But not in the same way Griffith is. And you have so few dances with your partner!”Smilingly, she threw herself down upon the bed and closed her eyes. Lily was right; she must be fresh for the dance. The class president could not afford to look weary and tired out. In a few minutes she was fast asleep.To be continue in this ebook...

Marjorie, Lily, and their friends graduate from Miss Allen's school. At a celebration dinner, Marjorie's parents reveal that their present is a two month long trip to a ranch in Wyoming. Best of all, the entire senior patrol of the Pansy troop will go on the trip with Marjorie and Lily. Marjorie's one regret is that by accepting the invitation, she is breaking a promise she made to John Hadley to spend two weeks of her vacation somewhere near him and his mother. Marjorie feigns indifference, and John thinks that Marjorie no longer cares about him. After departing for Wyoming, the Scouts learn that Daisy Gravers will be unable to return to Miss Allen's school in the fall. Her family has spent a large amount of money trying to locate Daisy's sister, Olive, who ran away after an argument with her husband. The girls have a splendid time on the ranch, but the end of their vacation quickly approaches. The girls reluctantly plan for the day when they will be separated forever. A surprise party planned by John and his mother reunites the girls for one last time, brings John and Marjorie closer together, and helps the Scouts solve the mystery of Daisy's missing sister.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.