Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MISS BIDDLE OF BRYN MAWR WOULD NT have minded so much, explained Katherine, dolefully, and not without the suspicion of a sob, if it was n’t that I ‘d asked Miss Hartwell and Miss Ackley! I shall die of embarrassment? I shall! Oh! why could n’t Henrietta Biddle have waited a week before she went to Europe? Her room-mate, Miss Grace Farwell, sank despairingly on the pile of red floor-cushions under the window. Oh, Kitten! you didn’t ask them? Not really? she gasped, staring incredulously at the tangled head that peered over the screen behind which Katherine was splashily conducting her toilet operations. But I did! I think they ’re simply grand, especially Miss Hartwell, and I ’ll never have any chance of meeting her, I suppose, and I thought this was a beautiful one. So I met her yesterday on the campus and I walked up to her?I was horribly scared, but I don’t think I showed it?and,said I,'Oh, Miss Hartwell, you don’t know me, of course, but I ’m Miss Sewall, '9?, and I know Henrietta Biddle of Bryn Mawr, and she ’s coming to see me for two or three days, and I ’m going to make alittle tea for her?very informal?and I Ve heard her speak of you and Miss Ackley as about the only girls she knew here, and I ’d love to have you meet her again!’ Miss Farwell laughed hysterically. And did she accept? she inquired. Katherine wiped her face for the third time excitedly. Oh, yes! She was as sweet as peaches and cream! ‘I shall be charmed to meet Miss Biddle again, and in your room, Miss Sewall,’ she said, ‘and shall I bring Miss Ackley?’ Oh, Grace, she’s lovely! She is the most?
Yes, I Ve no doubt, interrupted Miss Farwell, cynically; all the handsome seniors are. But what are you going to say to her today? Katherine buried her yellow head in the towe…