"I'll probably get Joan, and you know she always uses me as a door-mat." Agnes meantime was writing ten names on ten separate pieces of paper and folding them in identically the same fashion.

Peachy offered the loan of a hat, and into this treasury they were cast and shuffled.
"The newest member draws," murmured Agnes, and the others pushed Irene forward.

She chose two folds of paper at a venture, and twisted them together, then performed the like service for another pair, until all the ten were assorted.

The thrill of the ceremony was when Agnes opened the screws of paper and read out the names.

Fate had mixed the Camellia Buds together thus: Peachy Proctor--Sheila Yonge.
Jess Cameron--Delia Watts.
Joan Lucas--Esther Cartmel.
Agnes Dalton--Mary Fergusson.
Lorna Carson--Irene Beverley.
Whether the members of the secret sorority felt satisfied or otherwise with the result of the shuffle, etiquette forbade them to show anything but polite enthusiasm.