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They had barely reached the gymnasium for the half hour of dancing, when Sue caught up with them breathlessly. "Come back," she called. "Miss North has given you permission to come to the reception-room and meet Billy and Hammie. Hurry, they can only stay a half hour." It is needless to say the girls hurried, slowing down modestly before reaching the reception-room door.
As soon as she could gather courage after the introductions Blue Bonnet looked across the table at her neighbors. She remembered Sue's remark about Hammie McVickar, and laughed outright. Sue had said he was a "funny little chap." Perhaps he was, but he towered six feet two, if an inch; a magnificent, big, clean-limbed fellow with brown eyes and a nice face that attracted Blue Bonnet.
"Well," Hammie McVickar explained, "when any one enters this balcony every man down there begins pounding with his knife and fork, or anything that's handy, and raising such a din, that guests usually depart quickly." "I think that's very rude," Blue Bonnet said, and the men agreed with her politely. "Wasn't it just like Billy to pick out the biggest bouquet for Mrs. White?"
Plague take it, why didn't Stuart give me a show needn't have tread on my heels this way." But Stuart, at the door, stopping only a half moment for a lost overcoat so he said was being presented to the ladies. And in Stuart's wake came others. It was amazing how many things had been lost oh the campus; or in Billy Hemphill and Hammie McVickar's rooms. Mrs. White began to feel nervous.
Candle? La, you know the way full well. The dusk is hardly fell. Nay, you're not plucking Judith's sleeve, Hammie? You are not a lad to want a sister at elbow? Go, now! What say you, Mistress Snelling? The tale? An' Willy Shakespeare here, all eyes and open mouth for it, too? Ay, but he's the rascalliest sweet younker for the tale. An' where were we?
"Billy quite dotes on you, you know. He says in my note that you've just got to come. He and Hammie will accept no substitute. Billy would be so awfully disappointed if you didn't come." Mrs. White smiled pleasantly. "I wouldn't hurt Billy for the world, Susan," she said. The teachers always called Sue "Susan" those who had known her since her entrance as a very young girl.
Whereupon Gammer pauses and turns her puckered eyes down upon the two urchins at her knee. Has she heard what her grandson said? Will Shakespeare feels as guilty as if he had been the one to say it. "Ay, but those are brave words, Hammie," says Gammer, and she wags her sharp chin knowingly; "brave words. An' you shall take the bowl yonder and fetch a round o' pippins from the cellar for us here.
"It is such a nice name. Do your friends call you Jerry?" "The boys at school called me Roldie, and sometimes Hammie. But my mother always called me Jerry. She isn't living now, either. You call me Jerry, will you?" "Yes, I will, but it won't be proper. But that never makes any difference to me, except when it might shock the members! You want me to call you Jerry, don't you?" "Yes, I do.
Sue was executing a fancy step down the hall and her whole manner betokened the utmost excitement. "You look cheerful enough for all of us, Sue," Blue Bonnet answered. "What's happened to you?" "Billy's coming going to be here for dinner; so is his room-mate, Hammie McVickar." "Hammie! What a funny name!" "Hamilton! Funny little chap, too. Wait till you see him."
Hard work at Court, as Hammie is done up with the gout. We dine with Lord Corehouse that's not true by the by, for I have mistaken the day. It's to-morrow we dine there. Wrought, but not too hard. March 9. An idle morning. Dalgleish being set to pack my books. Wrote notes upon a Mr.
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