It was the custom of the Sixth Form, and of many of the Fifth, to take their lunch and eat it quietly in the gymnasium.

There was no hard and fast rule about this, but it was generally understood to be a privilege of the upper forms only, and intermediates and juniors were not supposed to intrude.

To-day most of the elder girls were sitting in clumps at the far end of the gymnasium, when through the open door marched a most amazing procession of juniors.

They were headed by Phyllis Smith and Dorrie Barnes carrying between them a small blackboard upon which was chalked: DOWN WITH PREFECTS! RIGHTS FOR JUNIORS! THE WHOLE SCHOOL IS EQUAL! After these ringleaders marched a determined crowd waving flags made of handkerchiefs fastened to the end of rulers.

A band, equipped with combs covered with tissue-paper torn from their drawing-books, played the strains of the "Marseillaise." They advanced towards the seniors in a very truculent fashion.
"Well, really!" exclaimed Lispeth, recovering from her momentary amazement.