"You're right, and I can't see why Gwen Gascoyne should be so specially noticed."
"She's supposed to be clever, I believe."
"She doesn't look it! Besides, what do we care whether she's clever or not? It's the injustice of the thing that makes me angry. A kid like her amongst us seniors! The idea!"
"Miss Roscoe may send Gwen up," declared Louise Mawson, "but she can't make us accept her as one of ourselves. I vote we send her to Coventry."
"We will! She's nothing but a Lower School girl, and we won't tolerate her being imposed upon us!"
"She'll be so conceited at finding herself a Senior!"
"We'll soon take her pride down, then!"
"She'll meet with a few snubs here, I'll undertake to say!"
"If Miss Roscoe is going to bring up all the rank and file like that there's no credit in being in the Fifth!"
"It's a positive insult to the rest of us!"