Her thoughts went back to the symposium of a year ago, when as a new and unknown girl, she had listened to Margaret Howell's inspiring speech.

How unlikely it had seemed then that she would ever have a hand in making school history, but how her spirit had been stirred, and how she had longed to do her part! It was something to have realized her pet ambition.
"It was most awfully good of you to propose me," she said to Bessie Kirk afterwards.

"You'd a splendid chance yourself." "Not I!" returned Bessie lightly.

"Kirsty's letter settled the whole business.

I shouldn't have made nearly as good a Captain as you.