"Which will you choose?" clamoured three or four urgent voices.
"Oh, I say! It's too bad to rag her so, just at first!" protested Doris Patterson, a shade more sympathetic than the rest.
"Not a bit of it! If she's really English, she must show it—and if she won't, she's nothing but a foreigner!" blustered Dulcie Wilcox.
"This is easy enough," volunteered Annie Pridwell, performing a few steps by way of encouragement. "Now, come along and do as I do."
"Fly, little birdie, fly!" mocked Betty Scott.
"She's too stupid!"
"She's going to blub!"
"Leave her alone!"
"No, make her dance!"
"Don't let her sneak out of it!"