you can tell she 's pretty smart-she 's always done the reading when mrs. gregory calls on her-and the truth is , the fact that she hangs around lila , dim as she is , proves at least she 's not a snob , since most of the girls at saint eligius wo n't give lila the time of day ... ever since that cell-phone photo went all around school of exactly what she and ted were doing in the bathroom at that loft party downtown .