Those
horrid, stuck-up paying girls don't want you; and we do. Nothing will
induce us to give you up. It is a chance to get a girl like you, so
lovely and so sweet and so rich, to be one of us."
"Well, I think I can give you a good time, and I can show those others
with their snobbish ways--"
"Hear, hear!" cried the excited girls.
"I can show the others what I think of them. They won't snub me, but
perhaps I shall snub them. Well, girls, as we have decided to band
together, we must draw up rules; and when they are drawn up we must obey
them. I, of course, will be your head; as you have made me queen, that
is the natural thing to expect."
"Of course," said Susy.
Kathleen clapped her hands.
"This is going to be a real good secret society," she said. "What fun it
all will be!"
The girls laughed, and clustered with more and more friendliness round
Kathleen.
"You are our queen," said Kate. "There are eight of us here, and we all
swear allegiance to you.--Don't we, girls?"
"Certainly," said Susy.
"Unquestionably," remarked Mary.
"With all my heart," said Rose.
"And mine," echoed Clara.
"And mine," said Kate.
"I will join the others, although I don't approve," said Hannah Johnson,
with a somewhat unwilling nod.
"And I am neutral. I don't think I ought to join at all," said Ruth.
"Oh, yes, you will, Ruth. I want you to be my Prime Minister, I want you
to be with me in all things.
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