"Very much so."
"I don't call it fair that these four boarders should have all the authority."
"It isn't!"
"If they think we're going to knuckle under to them they're very much mistaken."
"Giving themselves such airs about being old Silversiders, and treating us like inferiors!"
"Can't we do anything?"
"Let's form an 'Old Hawthorners' Guild', and vow to stick to one another. There are more of us than of them, and we'll beat them in lessons and at games, and let them see who's inferior."
"Right you are! You shall be captain, Annie."
"Then you shall be secretary, Gladys."
"I know everybody will be only too delighted to join."