The girls who signed the paper I have mentioned will rise." There was a moment of suspense, then Eleanor Savell proudly rose from her seat.

Her example was followed, until two thirds of the girls present were standing.

The principal stood silently regarding them with an expression of severity that was decidedly discomfitting.
"That will do," she said curtly, after they had stood for what seemed to them an age, but was really only a couple of minutes.
"You may be seated.

The girl who composed and wrote that agreement will now rise and explain herself." Without hesitating, Eleanor rose and regarded the principal with an insolent smile.

"I wrote it, Miss Thompson," she said clearly.