Miss Thompson had been praising the team to me, and I said to the girls that I thought I loved it just as a mother loves her daughters.
There is no sacrifice I wouldn't make to keep up the team's good work, and that is the reason why I am going to make a sacrifice, now, and decline to resign.

If I had been a poor captain, you would have had a right to ask for my resignation But I haven't.

I have been a good, hard-working, conscientious captain, and I have made a success of the team.

None of you can deny it.

If you took a new captain at this stage it might ruin everything, and I tell you I have thought too much about it; I have set my heart on it so firmly that it would just break if we lost the deciding game." Her voice broke a little.