human
Then my sister said that the girls were afraid that they might not get bid to one in the University, that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush and that some of them thought a girl was more likely to be asked into a sonority in the University if she had belonged to a high school sorority.
gpt
Does Louise belong to a sorority over there?
human
Yes, and my sister, too, but they were talking about some of their friends that didn't get in and how unhappy they were. That's the worst of it. Louise was asked by my sister's sorority.
gpt
Was Louise in a high school sorority?
human
No--she said that she wouldn't be. There wasn't any one started that she wanted to join when she was a freshman or sophomore and then she got into so much responsibility in the G. A. A. and cared for athletics so much more, I guess. But Louise didn't say a word about herself. I got all about her through Letty. Letitia didn't go to high school much. She was sick some and it was better for her to go to private school. My Dad's the one that insisted on _my_ going to Lyon High.
gpt
I'm certainly glad that you did, said Betty, with emphasis.
human
I'm glad to hear all this, Carolyn, and Louise's idea. There's another thing. I can't see that it makes much difference on our 'social position,' outside of just a few girls that we like, like Marcella, because there's such a _mob_ of folks in this big high school. The sororities _can't_ have so much influence, outside of their own little group, and we could just as easily have our own friends. There are such _loads_ of nice girls in the Girl Reserves, for instance, and in the swimming and games who cares what sorority a girl belongs to, or knows, for that matter!
gpt
Oh, they work for their own, Betty. You'd be surprised at the things _some_ of the girls will do to be represented in prominent affairs.
human
Does it get them anywhere?
gpt
Sometimes.
human
Do you know who are going in with the Kappa Upsilons? asked Betty, talking off the oiled paper from her candy.
gpt
Carolyn, she said, by way of parenthesis,
human
That's all right, said Carolyn, removing the paper from her piece.
gpt
Perhaps we need to do some _thinking_!
human
Yes--but I've thought and thought. What I need to do is deciding.
gpt
Help me decide, too.
human
I wouldn't dare take the responsibility.
gpt
It makes a lot of difference what _you_ do, Betty. I'll not care so much to be in it unless you are.
human
Oh, Carolyn!
gpt
It's so, Betty Lee! But you asked me who were being asked or who were going in, which isn't quite the same thing. I think Peggy Pollard will, and Lucia has said she would. They are crazy to get her into it--the daughter of a count and countess!
human
Yes, but Lucia is good enough to be asked on her own account, and she can be pardoned, perhaps, for being 'snooty' in social matters.
gpt
I don't see why!
human
I mean because of the way she has been brought up. Don't you suppose if you'd had family and wealth drilled into you and all that way of living it would make you different?
gpt
Yes--I imagine it would. Lucia's been everywhere.