human
Have you, what is it?
gpt
I had an invitation this afternoon and I sort of suspect you had, too. Did you?
human
Why--I don't know. I'm not sure just what you mean. Perhaps I would have had one if I hadn't had to rush for a car and get home. Mother was invited out for dinner and I cooked ours.
gpt
Oh, did you? I wish I knew how! Well, I just have to see you some way. Could you leave for just a little while if I drove over for you!
human
I'll ask. I've lessons well enough up, I suppose. I got most of them at school, and if you're thinking of the same thing I am, I'd surely like to talk it over with you. Hold the wire a moment.
gpt
Father, excuse me, but Carolyn wants to know if I can drive over with her if she comes for me. We have--something to decide and it's--important.
human
Is she driving, this late?
gpt
Oh, no. She wouldn't be allowed. She will be driven.
human
Very well, then, but do not stay late.
gpt
No. I have my lessons pretty well, Father.
human
My, such preparations!
gpt
Don't you like 'em?
human
Indeed I do! I'm so thankful to be invited over, for I couldn't study or do anything else,
gpt
Tell me why you were preoccupied, Betty,
human
Oh, _you_ tell what your problem is.
gpt
said Carolyn, and Betty
human
It's just because you're nicer than I am, said Carolyn,
gpt
You may not think what I have to tell you is much, but it was Marcella's manner and I saw that she wanted to talk to me,
human
Yes, that was it. It was one of the other girls that talked to me, though. But she told me that some of my special friends were being asked, or would be asked to join the Kappa Upsilons. It _would_ be fun, Betty!
gpt
Yes, it would; but there's a lot of things to be considered. In the first place it _is_, really, a high school sorority. The girls don't even pretend that it isn't, or practically the same thing. How do they get around it, Carolyn?
human
By having people outside of high school belong to it and claiming that it is just a society and not a high school affair.
gpt
I see. I've been trying out Mother and Father on high school sororities and all I can get out of them is surprise that I should mention it at all. 'How can they have sororities if they are forbidden?' asks my dear mother!
human
Yes--my father the same--but Mother knows. She just laughs. I didn't tell her I'd been bid today. Well, now, listen, Betty. We agree that it would be fun. So it would. That's that. It sounds well to be a Kappa Upsilon and we can go around if we like and be as snooty as any of them. But they've dropped Kathryn since the party, for one thing. She did not mention it, though of course she has noticed it, but when I asked her about something that I was in on she didn't know a thing about it and looked at me as _funny_--I don't think it was nice of them, to pay attention and then drop a person like a hot cake.
gpt
No. That isn't like Marcella Waite, though.
human
Marcella is a fine girl, but there are two or three that are different. Oh, they're nice enough. A body could have them for friends, but they take up little things. Kathryn may have said something that wasn't according to their notion. Kathryn is pretty independent, you know.
gpt
So am I,
human
Yes, but with a little difference, and then you are prominent now in athletics. They all expect you to win something in the girls' swimming meet and you are going to make the basketball team.
gpt
Am I? laughed Betty,