So there was plenty of space in Madeline's room for giving an elaborate spread, and most elaborate was the mushroom party that she had provided for "The Merry Hearts." Babbie Hildreth's stunning chafing-dish, with the four copper rabbits standing on their hind legs and looking inquiringly over the edge of the pan, occupied the place of honor on the tea-table. Babbie's chafing-dish was the envy of the whole college. She had bought it with the money that her mother had sent for the term's wages of the maid that Babbie was still supposed to be keeping. It represented much self-denial in the matter of riding-horses and suppers at Cuyler's, which were Babbie's favorite methods of disposing of the maid's stipend; but, as Bob said, it was worth a few rides and a good deal of starvation on campus fare to be known as the owner of the swellest chafing-dish in Harding.