VICKI WOKE UP ONE MORNING to find Jean and Charmion dancing around the hotel room in glee, waving letters.
“We passed!” they shouted. “You passed too! Of course we opened your letter. Shouldn’t have, but we couldn’t wait!”
Vicki immediately telephoned the good news to her family. Ginny and her mother said, “Hurray for you!” Professor Barr said, “Well, this satisfies me that you were right, Vicki.”
The telephone rang constantly for the next hour, as the girls talked excitedly from floor to floor. The whole class had passed. As many as could crowd into Vicki and Jean’s room came up to celebrate. A cranky old man across the hall complained of the noise. No one remembered to eat breakfast. But they were all so blissful at becoming air stewardesses that nothing else mattered.
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