“Yes, Hippy is studying some this year,” replied David.  “You see this is our senior year, and we are going to enter the same college next year, if all goes well.  You know Hippy never bothered himself much about study, just managed to scrape through.  But now he’ll have to hustle if he gets through with High School this year, and he’s wide awake to that fact.”

“Under those circumstances, Hippy is forgiven, but not you and Reddy!” said Grace severely.  “You’ll have to have better excuses than football and experiments.”

“I’ll tell you what we’ll do to square ourselves,” said David, smiling.  “We’ll take you girls to the football game next Thursday.  It’s Thanksgiving Day, you know, and Oakdale is going to play Georgetown College.  Reddy’s on the team, but Hippy and I will do the honors.”

“Fine,” replied Grace.  “But are you willing to burden yourselves with some extra girls?  You see it’s this way.  One of the things that our sorority has pledged itself to do this year is to look up the stray girls in High School, and see that they are not lonely and homesick during holiday seasons.  I used to know nearly all the girls in school, but ever so many new ones have crept in, and some of them have come here from quite a distance, on account of the excellence of our High School.  After we adopted Mabel Allison, we began looking about us for other fish to fry, and found out about these girls.  So every girl in the sorority has invited one or more of these lonely ones for Thanksgiving Day.  They are to come in the morning and stay until the lights go out, which will be late, for mother has consented to let me have a party and all those new girls are to be the guests of honor.

“Mrs. Gray is in it, too.  She insists on having Anne with her on Thanksgiving, although Anne had invited two girls to her house,” continued Grace.  “Mrs. Gray had planned a party for us, but when we told her what we were about to do, she gave up her party and agreed to go to mine instead, on condition that Anne’s family, plus Anne’s two guests, should have dinner with her.”

“Bless her dear heart,” said David, “she is always thinking of the pleasure of others.  Now about the football game.  Bring your girls along and I’ll do my best to give them a good time, although I’m generally anything but a success with new girls.  However, Hippy makes up for what I lack.  He can entertain a regiment of them, and not even exert himself.  Now I must leave you, for I have a very important engagement at home.”

“In the laboratory, I suppose,” said Anne teasingly.

“Just so,” replied David.  “Good-bye, girls.  Let me know how many tickets you want for the game.”  He raised his cap, mounted his machine and was off down the street.

“It will seem good to have a frolic with the boys again, won’t it?” said Grace to Anne as they strolled along.

“We do seem to be getting awfully serious and settled of late,” replied Anne.  “Why, this sorority business has taken up all our spare time lately.  We’ve had so many special meetings.”