Chapter VI.

Romantic Gates

Meantime Viki decided to attend Tournament. She went to the welcome on Friday, met V.U.C.'s Tournament Renegades, Messrs. Bed and Board, and went home dreaming of the opening of gates of romance, Bed or Board? Thrills or security? While she hesitated, they were lost to her. In any case, she consoled herself, Bed was very long, very narrow and very wooden.

Viki came up to V.U.C. early on Saturday morning and met a bright-eyed boy who introduced himself as Warm Kneed. He asked her to go up to the Hot Gardens to see the glowworms, so our heroine spent all Saturday plumbing the darkest recesses of the gardens searching for the delusive glow-worm. As the ex-chaperone explained to her later, Warm was so innocent he wouldn't know that glowworms only shone at night.

Anyway, Viki was so exhausted that she spent all Sunday in bed, until the night came and the shadows fell, and the busy world was hushed, and Viki sallied forth to St. Paul's to the Tournament Church Service. On the way she had a car accident, but managed to arrive in time. She sang the hymns cheerfully and went home uplifted.