“Oh, dear,” sighed Edna, “it’s going to be pretty hard, isn’t it?”
“I don’t believe it is going to be as much fun as the other girls’ club,” complained Dorothy.
“Oh, yes it is. You wait and see,” said Agnes. “After a while everyone of them will be dying to come into ours.”
“Oh, Agnes, I don’t believe a bit of that,” said Dorothy.
“Oh, but you see we are going to have very good times, you forget that part. The kind word part is only when we are having dealings with our schoolmates and all that. We don’t have to do just that and nothing else. For example, I have the loveliest sort of story to read to you all just as soon as the business part of the meeting is over, and then we are to have refreshments.”
“Oh, good!” there was emphatic endorsement of this.
“There ought to be fines, I suppose,” Agnes went on. “Let me see, what shall we be fined for? I shall have to get some light upon that, too, but I think it would be a good plan that any girl who voluntarily stirs up a fuss with another at school must pay a fine of not less than one cent. What do you think of that, Celia?”
“I should think that might be a good plan though I expect we shall all turn Quakers if we continue the club.”
Agnes laughed. “It does look that way. At all events we are to thank Clara Adams for it all. Her club is founded on unkindness and if we want to be a rival, Mrs. Conway says we must have ours founded on kindness.”
“Do you know anything about her club?” asked Jennie.