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“Thanks, Mickey. An awful load is off my mind. Goodbye, girls, have a good time.”

“Sit here, Cathalina and Lilian, do!” invited Juliet Howe and Helen Paget, as the girls passed them, and pointed to two seats near.

“Yes, do,” seconded Diane Percy, moving along to make room.

“Aren’t you nice—” said Cathalina patting Diane’s red cheeks lightly as she edged her way on, “but the girls are saving seats for us, you see. How does it happen that you are not with your room-mates?” she continued, looking at Juliet and Helen.

“O, we thought that Pauline and Eloise needed a rest,” said Juliet, with a laugh. “We still speak to each other, however.”

There had been some changes in the matter of room-mates, but the personnel of “Lakeview Suite,” so long the headquarters of Hilary Lancaster, Betty Barnes, Cathalina Van Buskirk and Lilian North, was unchanged. The neighboring suite, occupied by Juliet and Pauline, Eloise and Helen, had also earned a name, but the girls were as yet uncertain what to call it, though as Pauline said it was high time they called it something before their last year at Greycliff should be over. When they were making out their schedules of study for the year, Eloise had suggested that it be called the “Labor Union,” but that name was scornfully rejected as not inspirational enough. As Helen was now president of the Psyche Club, Cathalina had suggested that the suite be called the Olympic Portal, or O. P., and while the girls had also rejected this name, she and Betty sometimes referred to the suite as the “O. P.”