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 Fidelia's serious purpose at college; Miss Lacey also seemed to find something amusing; and Fidelia felt Dorothy's fingers clasping her own more tightly. She began to realize that the girls, who most obviously did not like her, were all wearers of society pins and that her friends were among the other girls.

She knew that they all had learned now that she was a Tau Gamma from Minnesota and also that last night the local Tau Gamma girls, who lived at Willard Hall, had had her "over." She wondered how much more Edith Lacey, for instance, might know which Fidelia herself did not. Miss Lacey, though a member of a different sorority, appeared to be an intimate friend of several Tau Gammas.

"I hear you met Myra Taine last night," Miss Lacey commented. "She and I roomed together freshman year. I dropped into her room half an hour after you'd gone."

Fidelia took this remark as almost threatening. Of course she had seen that Myra Taine disliked her and she wondered if, after she had left Myra's room, Tau Gamma had decided to turn thumbs down upon her and Myra Taine had hinted at this.

Fidelia knew that the local Tau Gamma girls could refrain from inviting her to join them; but it was not at all probable; for it would put too great a stigma upon a girl. It would amount to saying, publicly, "Tau Gamma has met you and written about you to the other chapters which you joined; we've found something the matter and so refuse to take you in."

No, Fidelia thought; they would not do that; but