"What is honor but an empty bubble?" declaimed Madeline gaily. "And I don't see where the fun comes in. You have to stand up behind when you usher. I'd rather sit down in front. Besides, most of commencement is deadly dull. While you are hurrying around in the heat spoiling your best clothes and being bored I shall go trolley-riding, or if there's something I want to see, like the Ivy Day procession, I can hang out of my window in a comfortable kimono----"