The difficulty was not so much to find helpers as to decide who was to have the honor of performing.

There were many heart-burnings before the program was finally fixed.

It was decided that a musical selection should be given first, followed by a piece by the Dramatic students.

To cut these to reasonable limits needed all Linda's discretion, tact and firmness.
"You can't have an entertainment beginning at three, and going on till midnight," she urged, as the various desired items were submitted to her.

"You'd have to hire ambulances to take your exhausted audience home! Very sorry, but we must keep some of the things for a future occasion." Linda, being wise in her generation, and having an eye to the sale of tickets, insisted that the Lower School should take a share in the performance.
"Who wants to bother to hear the kids ?" objected Grace Olliver, who, by the bye, was a member of the "Dramatic," and therefore not entirely disinterested.
"If we don't bother with the kids, they mayn't bother to come and bring friends, and we should look silly if we didn't sell all our tickets! Let them do their flag display, and sing their Empire song.