human
Miss Smith has an announcement to make.
gpt
I'm going to have company and I want you all to know it, and come and get acquainted.
human
Who is it?
gpt
The rest of the Wide Awake girls.
human
What?
gpt
All of them?
human
All of you together?
gpt
Not the German one?
human
Is Hannah Eldred coming?
gpt
I wish some one would enlighten me, said Max helplessly.
human
Who are the Wide Awake girls?
gpt
Why, Max! Didn't you ever take _Wide-Awake_?
human
The magazine? Sure thing. What of it? Does Catherine want us to subscribe? After an ivory manicure set or a lawn-mower premium?
gpt
No, no. Listen, Max, and any of the rest of you who are so ignorant as not to know about the Wide Awake girls. Hannah Eldred advertised for friends once, and Catherine and a little girl in Germany and one out West answered. And the German one proved to be the daughter of a long-lost friend of Hannah's mother, and the one out West turned up at Dexter, rooming next door, when she went there, and now she rooms with Catherine. Did you ever hear such a tale in your life? If you were to read such a string of facts in a book, you wouldn't believe it.
human
No more you would, commented Max.
gpt
I'm not at all sure I believe it, as it is. Are they all coming at once, Catherine?
human
Not quite. Hannah and Frieda will be here in a week or two, and Alice as soon after as she can. They are all of them the _dearest_ girls!
gpt
Pretty?
human
Wait and see, laughed Catherine.
gpt
They'll make their own impression, but I want you all to be friends as we are.
human
We'll do our best to entertain them, said Bert.
gpt
Distinguished foreigners don't come our way every day. I move you, Madam President, that we make these Wide Awake young ladies honorary members of the Club.