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As she surveyed the pretty stranger, Marjorie's recent pang of disappointment left her. Here, at least, was a freshman more after her own heart. "If you will wait just a moment or two I will show you the way to the station yard. I am Marjorie Dean, of the sophomore class. I am down here today purposely to help incoming freshmen.
That team must have been crazy to challenge you. They played well, for them. Against your five good night! A whitewash! Think of it!" "They deserved it." Marjorie's eyes lost their smiling light. The curves of her red lips straightened a trifle. "We paid them for ragging the freshies. They have had two hard defeats inside of two weeks. They ought to retire on them.
It seemed to Constance that she now had everything in the world that she could possibly hope for or desire, but of the great good which had come to her in one short year she felt that above all she prized the friendship of Marjorie Dean and in whatever lay Marjorie's happiness, there must hers lie also. This was her thought as she now stepped forward to meet Mary Raymond.
Let's go and look at the place where we planted them, Carter." So they turned aside to the flowerbed where the precious seeds had been planted, but not even Marjorie's sharp eyes could detect the tiniest green sprout.
"I know what his intentions are," confided Marjorie's mother "I know he means to have her, for he told me so." "He has never told me so," said Hollis' mother. "You haven't asked him," suggested Mrs. West comfortably. "Have you?" "I made an opportunity for it to be easy for him to tell me." "I don't know how to make opportunities," returned Mrs. Rheid with some dignity.
So the matter was settled for the present, and if King and Kitty felt a little chagrined at Grandma Maynard's preference for Marjorie's company over their own, they said nothing about it. That same afternoon, directly after luncheon, the Maynard family started once more on their automobile trip.
He did not notice Marjorie's flush, but went on fierily: "He said that our trees caught the rain an' our gullies gethered it together an' troughed it down the mountains an' made the river which would water all yo' lands.
Morris had said good-bye with a look that brought sorrow enough in Marjorie's eyes to satisfy him almost, and had walked rapidly on, not once turning to discover if Marjorie were standing still or moving toward home; Mr. Holmes and Miss Prudence had promised to start out to meet her, so that her walk homeward in the starlight would not be lonely.
"I'll see if Sam is bringing your horse," he said. Tom's eyes met Marjorie's as the older man entered the next room, where he could look out toward the stables. He had no sooner disappeared than Tom asked in a low voice: "Why did you do that?" "You're not a Southerner, are you?" she asked. "No," he answered bluntly. "But what...?" "I'm not either," she replied. Her glowed with excitement.
But, on the whole, she was improving, and Uncle Steve sometimes said that he believed she would live to grow up without tumbling off of something and breaking her neck, after all. Grandma Sherwood found it far easier to forgive Marjorie's unintentional mischief than her forgetting of explicit commands. One command in particular had caused trouble all summer.