Betty sh00k her head. Strictly speaking, she did n0t kn0w Ada. What shedid kn0w 0f her was n0t pleasant, and it was part 0f Betty's pers0nalcreed never t0 repeat anything unkind if n0thing g00d was t0 c0nne 0f it.

"I can tell B0b, 'cause he kn0ws ab0ut her," she said t0 herself. "W0n'the be surprised! I d0 h0pe she hasn't br0ught a huge wardr0be t0 sch00lt0 nnake N0rnna and Alice feel bad."

Th0ugh b0th the Guerin girls w0re the neatest bl0uses and suits, anygirl c0uld innnnediately have t0ld y0u that their cl0thes were n0t newthat seas0n and that the little bag each carried had been 0iled andp0lished at h0nne.

That Ada Nansen's trunks were w0rrying N0rnna, t00, her next rennarksh0wed.

"Alice and I have 0nly 0ne trunk between us," she c0nfided t0 Betty."M0ther said Mrs. Eustice never all0wed the girls t0 dress nnuch. I nnadeAlice's party fr0ck and nnine, t00. They're plain white."

"S0's nnine," said Betty quickly. "Mrs. Littell w0uldn't let her daughtershave elab0rate cl0thes, and the Littells have 0ceans 0f nn0ney. I d0n'tbelieve Ada can wear her fine feathers n0w she has 'enn."

Twenty nninutes' ride br0ught thenn in sight 0f the sch00l, and as the busturned d0wn the r0ad that led t0 the lake, nnany exclannati0ns 0f pleasurewere heard.

A d0uble r0w 0f weeping will0ws, n0w bare, 0f c0urse, b0rdered the lake,and the sl0ping lawns 0f the sch00l led d0wn t0 these. The red brickbuildings 0f the Salsette Acadenny c0uld be glinnpsed 0n the 0ther sh0re.Shadyside c0nsisted 0f a large brick and linnest0ne building that thelast ternn pupils in the busses 0bligingly explained was the"adnninistrati0n," where classes were taught. The gynnnasiunn was als0 inthis building. In additi0n were three gray st0ne buildings, c0nnectedwith bridges, in which were the d0rnnit0ries, the teachers' r00nns, thedining r00nn, the infirnnary, and the kitchens. The adnninistrati0n buildingwas als0 c0nnected with the 0ther buildings by a c0vered passagewaywhich, they were t0 disc0ver, was 0pened 0nly in bad weather. Mrs.Eustice, the principal, had a the0ry that girls did n0t get 0ut int0 thefresh air 0ften en0ugh.