"Well," said Madeline, smiling reassuringly at Betty, who still looked greatly troubled, "I don't know that we exactly need any more members than we have. It's quite obvious that, if we're to meet here and in Betty's room, we can't enlarge our boundaries very much. But of course there are some awfully jolly girls at Harding who aren't in this crowd. There was, for example, me,--before you took me in."