"If the cap fits, put it on."
Nellie and Claire began to giggle at the prospect of a spar between Patsie and Vivien. Dorothy was fiddling with her pencil and frowning.
"I don't let the kiddies take liberties with me," she vouchsafed; "yet they escort me home in relays every day."
"A monitress ought surely to be liked!" said Audrey plaintively.
"What I feel is, that we ought to work more in harmony," explained Lorraine. "It doesn't do for one monitress to allow a thing, and another to forbid it. The juniors don't know where they are."
"Yes, we can't each run the show on our own," agreed Patsie.
"Couldn't we draw up a sort of general list to go upon?"
"A black-list?"
"Well, I mean some general guiding rules."
"It's quite unnecessary," demurred Vivien. "My advice is to keep the kids in their places, and there'll be no more bother with them. It's that sloppy sentimental truckling to them that's at the bottom of all the trouble. I've got to go home now. You may make any rules you like, but I shan't promise to keep them."