On the way they met and annexed Lucile Merrifield and Polly Eastman, who invited them to sit with the seniors in chapel next morning, offered them their choice between dinner at Cuyler’s or the Belden, whose matron, they declared, would be “pleased as punch” to have such distinguished guests, and reproached Mary hotly for not being willing to conspire against the ten o’clock rule by inviting them to join her supper party.