"I wrote it because I wished to.

I am sorry you found out about it, because it has spoiled all our fun." There was a gasp of horror at Eleanor's assertion.

No one had ever before spoken so disrespectfully to their revered principal.
"Miss Savell," said the principal quietly, although her flashing eyes and set lips showed that she was very angry, "if you have that paper in your possession, bring it to me at once, and never answer me again as you did just now.

You are both disrespectful and impertinent." But Miss Thompson's anger toward Eleanor was nothing compared with the tempest that the principal had aroused in Eleanor.

The latter flushed, then turned perfectly white with rage.