College and Beyond
Millicent Schuyler was far from home and nervous. She had been thrilled when she found out she had been accepted to Vassar, her mother's alma matter, but it was so far from California. She would have preferred to go to school there, but she knew her parents expected her to go to Vassar. She hoped she would enjoy college at Vassar and make many friends. She had just settled in her dorm room, when her roommate who could be her twin walked in. They looked so much alike.
"Hello I'm Eunice Smith, your roommate."
"Hello Ms. Smith. I'm Millicent Schuyler."
"Pleased to meet you, Millicent. Where does your family reside?"
"San Francisco, and where does yours reside?" Millicent realized that her roommate seemed upper class and was grateful for that. Mother would be very relieved when she had learned this.
"New York. Is your family in the San Francisco Social Register?"
"Yes."
"Oh how wonderful! Would you like to have dinner with me tonight?"
"That would be wonderful, Eunice! Thank you very much. What are you planning on studying?"
"English, and you?"
"Education, I would like to be in charge of a school for young ladies or gentlemen of prestigious families one day."
"Runing your own school, my goodness!"
"Yes, it would be wonderful!"
The two started heading off to dinner after Eunice had unpacked with the help of her family's maid. Millicent also had a family maid help her unpack. On the way to dinner, Millicent and Eunice introduced themselves to their next door neighbors who were just leaving for dinner.
"Hello my name is Margret DuPont. My descendants came over on the Mayflower! Did yours?"
"Mine actually came to Jamestown. I'm Eunice Smith and this is my roommate, Millicent. "declared Eunice.
"Oh, really,did they?", Margret was jealous of Eunice's ancestors, they got to America before her's!
"Hello, I'm Eunice Wentworth, but everyone calls me Lovey. I'm so excited to be roommates with Margret. Her mother and my mother are very dear friends! Would you like to join us for dinner?"
"Millicent, did your family come over on the Mayflower?", asked Margret.
"I really don't know, but my grandfather was California's first millionaire and my family is in the Social Register." Millicent hoped that Margret would still accept her in her social circle.
"Oh well as long as your family is in the Social Register, you can dine with us. I've never dined with someone not in the Social Register before. Mother and Father would never allow it!" , said Lovey.
"I suppose she can. It's not as if our next door neighbor is a hillbilly!", remarked Margret.
"A what?", asked Lovey.
"Never mind, let's go to dinner."
They went off to dinner hoping that this would be the first of many dinners together.
