"I shall probably never finish enough of it even to edge a d'oyley," admitted Claudia calmly.
"Look here, this is side-tracking!" said Lorraine, rapping her pencil on the desk. "Please to remember that this is a Committee Meeting, and you must speak to the Chair. Won't anybody make a proposition?"
"I propose that we have what you've just suggested, then: a 'Games Club', an 'Entertainments Club', a 'Nature Study Union' and the 'Jack Tar Club'," said Dorothy.
"And quite enough, too," murmured Patsie.
"I'll second it!" declared Nellie.
"I'd like to add an amendment," said Lorraine. "I want to suggest that we have a School Social every month, where we can show specimens and drawings and photos."
Vivien pulled a face of discouragement.
"We've got enough on," she urged. "Leave us our Saturdays."
"We needn't have them on Saturdays. They could be from four to five on Wednesdays. I think it's just what is wanted at The Gables. Day girls never get an opportunity of meeting and comparing notes, and having fun together like girls do at boarding schools. It would be a sort of party every time."
"I think it sounds ripping!" said Claire. "Stick it in with the proposition, as far as I'm concerned."