"Now we will sit down here and be nice and comfy, and you will entertain
me," smiled Miss Elting. "How are you enjoying yourself?"

"Oh, so much!" exclaimed Harriet. Then her face clouded a little.

"But----" laughed Miss Elting.

"Yes, I suppose that does express it. However, I don't want you to think I
am not happy on my own account. It is on some one else's account."

"Tell me all about it, Harriet, dear."

"I am afraid that I cannot do that," replied the girl after a brief
reflection.

"Then tell me as much as you wish me to know," urged Miss Elting.

"In the first place," began Harriet, "I wish to ask your advice on a
matter that is troubling me."

Miss Elting smiled encouragingly.

"I am listening."

"It is about that hazing affair. Suppose a girl had been asked if she knew
anything about it and she had declared that she did not. What then?"

"You mean that she did know something about it but pretended that she did
not?"