I believe they're buddies, and a charming pair they'll be! We shall have to tackle them somehow.

This certainly can't be allowed to go on." "Isn't it a case for the prefects ?" asked Irene, addressing the President.
Agnes's forehead was drawn into a series of puckers.
"We hate telling," she sighed.

"The fact is the prefects in this school aren't quite what they ought to be.

They _think_ they do their duty, but they're too aloof and high-handed and bossing, and the consequence is they're not popular, and the girls would as soon complain to a teacher as to Rachel or Sybil or Erica.

It simply isn't done.