Of course in any extremity she'll support us.

I'll pin up a notice in the junior cloak-room and see what effect that has.

It may settle them." Lispeth stayed after four o'clock until the last coat and hat had disappeared from the hooks in the juniors' dressing-room.

Then she pinned her ultimatum on their notice board: "In consequence of the extremely bad behavior of certain girls on the stairs this afternoon, the prefects give notice that should any repetition of such conduct occur, the names of the offenders will be taken and they will be reported to Miss Burd for punishment." "That ought to finish those kids!" she thought as she pushed in the drawing-pins.
There was more than the usual amount of buzzing conversation next morning as juvenile heads bumped each other in their efforts to read the notice.

The result, however, was absolutely unprecedented in the annals of the school.