`` That 's the jolly girl with the brown eyes that I met at the philomathic the other night . She thanks me for my invitation to the senior prom , and accepts with pleasure . Why , I certainly never invited her or anyone else to go with me to the senior prom . There must be some mistake . '' Grace passed him at this moment on her way to the Latin classroom . She bowed and smiled in a friendly fashion and Sidney Hill felt decidedly uncomfortable . What was he to do ? He did not like to think of putting Miss Seeley in a false position because somebody had sent her an invitation in his name . `` I suppose it is some cad who has a spite at me that has done it , '' he reflected , `` but if so I 'll spoil his game . I 'll take Miss Seeley to the prom as if I had never intended doing anything else . She sha n't be humiliated just because there is someone at Payzant who would stoop to that sort of thing . '' So he walked up the hall with Grace and expressed his pleasure at her acceptance , and on the evening of the prom he sent her a bouquet of white carnations , whose spicy fragrance reminded her of her own little garden at home . Grace thought it extremely nice of him , and dressed in a flutter of pleasant anticipation . Her gown was a very simple one of sheer white organdie , and was the only evening dress she had . She knew there would be many smarter dresses at the reception , but the knowledge did not disturb her sensible head in the least . She fingered the dainty white frills lovingly as she remembered the sunny summer days at home in the little sewing-room , where cherry boughs poked their blossoms in at the window , when her mother and sisters had helped her to make it , with laughing prophesies and speculations as to its first appearance . Into seam and puff and frill many girlish hopes and dreams had been sewn , and they all came back to Grace as she put it on , and helped to surround her with an atmosphere of happiness . When she was ready she picked up her bouquet and looked herself over in the mirror , from the top of her curly head to the tips of her white shoes , with a little nod of satisfaction . Grace was not exactly pretty , but she had such a bright , happy face and such merry brown eyes and such a friendly smile that she was very pleasant to look upon , and a great many people thought so that night . Grace had never in all her life before had so good a time as she had at that senior prom .
The seniors were quick to discover her unaffected originality and charm , and everywhere she went she was the centre XXXXX a merry group .
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