We could get up a Hockey Concert in aid of it." "What a frolicsome notion! I'm your man!" "Wouldn't it be setting a bad precedent ?" objected Marjorie Kemp.
"Suppose the Governors stop having the tennis courts cut, and say we may do it ourselves ?" "We'd put that to Miss Bishop first, and make it well understood." "It would just make all the difference to the practices to have a roller at work, even once a week," urged Olave Parry.

"Do ask about it, Win!" Miss Bishop, on being appealed to, considered the suggestion favorably.
"Certainly there's no reason why you shouldn't improve the field, if you wish," she replied, adding with a smile: "I'll take care that the tennis courts don't suffer in consequence.

It was a prudent thought to mention them.

I expect when the war is over, the Governors may be persuaded to take the full expense of the playing field too.

I'll get an estimate at once of what the rolling would cost." Jones, the school janitor, who formerly kept the courts and cricket pitch in order, had gone to the war, and his place was occupied by a rheumatic old fellow who could do little more than carry coke and attend to the heating apparatus.