She was standing close to Miss Bishop, Miss Gatehead and Miss Medland, and therefore it was certainly a breach of school etiquette for her to do what she did, but acting on the impulse of the moment she shouted: "Cheer, you slackers! Three cheers for Elsie Parton!" and waving her hand as a signal, led off the "Hip-hip-hip hurrah!" A very volume of sound followed, and the roof rang as Miss Bishop presented the winner with the cup for the Championship.
"Thanks _awfully_, Winona!" said Elsie, as the girls walked away to the dressing-rooms.

"I'm afraid I've disappointed the school--but I did want to win!" "Of course you did--and why shouldn't you?
I hope I can take a beating in a sporting way! I think I made them ashamed of themselves.

Fair play and no favoritism is the tradition of this school, and I mean to have no nasty cliquey feeling in it so long as I'm Games Captain, or my name's not Winona Woodward! That's the law of the Medes and Persians!".