Take that affair at school; it was
never positively proven that Nan was dishonest. Only she had told a few
lies and her family was so horrid. Another girl might have been given
another chance!"
"Well, we can't give her a chance at our Camp Fire club this summer,
dear, Miss Martha is positive about it, so don't pretend that is not
what you have on your mind," Betty interrupted. "I am sorry, but Miss
Martha says she is a very different type of girl from the rest of us and
might get us into trouble, and she is afraid our parents would not like
her being with us."
"I don't know about parents, but I am sure mother wouldn't mind our
helping another girl, perhaps just because she is different." And
Polly's eyes filled with quick tears at the thought of her first long
separation from her mother.
But Mollie shook her head slowly though not unsympathetically. "I am
not so sure, Polly," she argued. "You know mother is always urging you
to be sensible first and sentimental afterwards, and says that half the
trouble in your life will come from working the other way round. Just
take the question of the money; Nan Graham would never be able to pay
her share, and although we let Mr. Ashton give us our camping outfit,
each one of us is to pay her portion of our expenses and to try and find
out how economical we can be.
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