Here she met with some opposition.

Nora, Marian Barber and Eva Allen were strongly opposed to sending it.

But Jessica, Anne and Miriam agreed with Grace that it would be in fulfillment of the original promise to Mrs.Gray to help Eleanor whenever they could do so.

So the Phi Sigma Tau signed their names and the note was passed to Eleanor directly after recess.
She opened it, read it through, and an expression of such intense scorn passed over her face that Nora, who sat near her and who was covertly watching her, knew at once that Grace's flag of truce had been trampled in the dust.
Picking up her pen, Eleanor wrote rapidly for a brief space, underlined what she had written, signed her name with a flourish, and, folding and addressing her note, sent it to Grace.
Rather surprised at receiving an answer so quickly, Grace unfolded the note.

Then she colored, looked grave and, putting the note in the back of the text-book she was holding, went on studying.
By the time school was over for the day, the girls of the Phi Sigma Tau knew that Eleanor had once more repudiated their overtures of friendship and were curious to see what she had written.
"Don't keep us in suspense.