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"Miss Hall" The receptionist’s voice was cool "Thank you for being so prompt Is there any way that you could coht now?"

Yikes If the dean had cleared her schedule to deal with et this over with

"I need to ask you not to speak to anyone on your way in"

"Um, okay" Holy crap Did I need a lawyer? I’d watched plenty of TV If I didn’t like the questions they were asking me, I could always stop the interview and call my father He’d love that But I knew he’d help me immediately

The receptionist told me where to find the dean’s office, but I already knehere it was and it tookto reach Tappanworth Hall The place was built to intiiant wooden doors, I found h another set of iht office with thick Persian rugs on the floor There were two assistants seated behind enormous desks One jumped out of her seat when I came in "Isabelle?"

"Yes"

"Let rateful you couldWilet you coffee? Tea? Water?"

"Uh, water would be great"

A few h yet another set of carved oak doors into the dean’s private office Dean Waite didn’t look like the doh She was a rather ordinary looking lady with grey, librarian hair "Have a seat, Isabelle And thank you for co"

"It’s Bella," I said, just to make myself feel brave

"Bella, take a chair," she said

I did Nothing happened until the receptionist had left the roo Wilma folded her hands on the desk "Bella, we have received a coainst the members of the Beta Rho fraternity"

My heart lurched as I replayed that sentence in ainst the fraternity, not from the fraternity Oh

Ohhhhh Oh no I was afraid to hear where this was going