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But if she has n't -- if she 's been treated shabbily , -- as I believe she has been -- then I 'll go wherever she goes , even if I have to live in a house away off the campus . '' `` Oh , girls , it 's good to be back ! '' Surrounded by a welcoming trio of white-gowned girls , Jane Allen clung affectionately to them . All along the station platform , bevies of merry-faced , daintily dressed young women were engaged in the joyful occupation of greeting classmates who had arrived on the four o'clock train . Here and there , committees of upper class girls were extending friendly hands to timid freshmen just set down in the outskirts of the land of college . Stepping down from the train Jane had been instantly seized by her energetic chums and smothered in a triangular embrace . A mist had risen to her gray eyes at the warmth of the welcome .