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“Do you suppose they’re poor?”

“Well, I’m afraid not so very poor, or they wouldn’t have dance dresses and be able to pay for a party. But I’m quite sure they’re not rich.”

“How do you happen to be doing this?” Marjorie inquired.

“You’ve heard me speak of Miss Winthrop—that friend of Mother’s, who is head of the Community Settlement in Philadelphia? Well, it seems that she had promised these girls, who meet there one evening a week as a little club, that they might have a dance. Then she was suddenly called to a conference in New York, so she asked me to bring another girl and chaperone them, in her place.”

“But college girls aren’t usually accepted as official chaperones,” objected Marjorie.

“Oh, there’s a Mrs. Morgan—the matron of the settlement—who will be there to keep up appearances. But Miss Winthrop says she’s an easy-going sort of woman, who never sees anything wrong with anybody or anything, and who would never be able to give her any sort of report of the party. Naturally, Miss Winthrop’s very keen to know just how the girls do behave.”