Though the girls sometimes called her "Jumbo," they meant the nickname in token of friendship, and submitted to her dictatorship far more readily than they would have done to that of any other member of the Sixth who had been put in her place.

Miss Burd had great confidence in Lispeth, and consequently, when they had talked over the matter of the new society which she wished to be formed in the school, she decided to leave its institution entirely in the hands of her head girl.
"It will be far better for the mistresses not to be present at the meeting," she said.

"I can trust you, Lispeth, to explain things, and the girls will like it much more if it seems to emanate from the new Council.

Talk to them in your own way, and they'll understand you.

I want the Society to be an absolutely voluntary one, or it's of no use.
Don't let them think they must join merely to please _me_.