The urgency of getting the club started, so as to enter a Past _v._ Present in her list of fixtures, had been her uppermost thought.

She had indeed made a most terrible blunder.
The feeling against her was evidently one of general censure.

Even Garnet looked grave, and Bessie Kirk was bridling.

Linda's manner was coldly official.

The stateliness of her speech was more cutting than Agatha's explosive wrath.