"Sugared! Ra—ther!"
"Shut up, you sillies! Someone will hear us," commanded Tootie. "I was saying before, we're not going to be sat upon, either by teachers or monitresses or seniors. We'll take our own way."
"A sugary way," chirped Ethel Jephson.
The girls hinnied again. There was evidently something underlying the joke.
"When perfectly ridiculous rules are made, that never ought to have been made," continued Tootie, "then we've a right to take the law into our own hands and do as we please."
"Our pocket money's our own," grumbled a discontented spirit from the back.
"Of course it is, and we ought to be able to do what we like with it."
"And so are our brooches, if we want to——"
"Sh—sh!"
"Shut up, stupid!"