I 'm sure -- '' `` Yes , you did . And she came here . Was I not taken aback at first , Maude ! '' `` I was thinking about her when I addressed it , and I must have put her name down by mistake . I 'm so sorry -- '' `` You need n't be . I have n't been entertained so charmingly for a long while . Why , Maude , she has travelled almost everywhere -- and is so bright and witty when she thaws out . She did n't seem like the same girl at all . She is just perfectly lovely ! '' `` Well , I 'm glad you had such a nice time together . Do you know , some of the girls were very much vexed because she was n't asked to the picnic . They said that it was sheer rudeness not to ask her , and that it reflected on us all , even if Patty and Wilhelmina were responsible for it . I 'm afraid we girls at Miss Braxton 's have been getting snobbish , and some of us are beginning to find it out and be ashamed of it . '' `` Just wait until school opens , '' said Nan -- vaguely enough , it would seem . But Maude understood . However , they did not have to wait until school opened . Long before that time Winboro girlhood discovered that the Wallace girls were taking Florrie Hamilton into their lives . If the Wallace girls liked her , there must be something in the girl more than was at first thought -- thus more than one of Miss Braxton 's girls reasoned . And gradually the other girls found , as Nan had found , that Florrie was full of fun and an all-round good companion when drawn out of her diffidence . When Miss Braxton 's school reopened Florrie was the class favourite .
Between her and Nan Wallace a beautiful and helpful friendship had been formed which was XXXXX grow and deepen through their whole lives .
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