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“Never,” said Mary decidedly. “That’s just what the girls I used to know at home are always asking me. ‘Why do you stay on so long, Mary? Don’t you get bored?’ And when I try to explain, I suppose they think it all sounds very dull. I presume I should think so myself, if I hadn’t been here to see. One year is a good deal like the ones before it,—the same friends, only a few more each year, the same nice little stunts, and almost the same things to try for,—but somehow each one is different and there’s plenty of excitement all along the road. If you’re afraid of outgrowing it, as you would a prep. school, you needn’t be. College is too big to be outgrown. It has a new side ready for any new side that you can develop. I say, Betty.”

“Yes?” inquired Betty absently. She was wondering how Mary had guessed that she had developed some new sides during the long vacation.

“I thought perhaps you’d like to know, since you’re so fond of Eleanor Watson. More or less about that affair of hers last year has leaked out during the summer.”