A group of young men and girls were gathered about her, and there was much hand-clasping, laughing and pleasantry on which Mrs. Welland, standing slightly apart, shed the beam of a qualified approval.
If you're ever at a stable and you see a group of horses laying down asleep, look around for one or more horses standing apart, keeping a watchful eye out for predators while their friends sleep.
The invited people from Vocational were mixed with the neighborhood gang. The boys and the girls still stood in separate bunches, though — -and nobody prommed. In the house the lemonade was just about gone.