Betty’s delight knew no bounds. The girls
cheered her and were very strenuous in their congratulations. It was fully fifteen minutes before the meeting came to any sort of order. When things did finally quiet down, Louise, as captain, took the chair.
“Field Day is not two weeks off,” she began. “You all know that we are going to play the Fenwick School again this year and we must win.”
Then looking at Polly, she added: “Please be careful and don’t get any broken ankles or arms, for you may all be needed. Remember, they beat us last year.”
“That was because we played on their floor and it was strange to us,” spoke up Florence Guile. She had played in the game the year before and felt she must defend the team’s honor. “This year we play here and we will win; you see if we don’t.”
At this point Nora Peters, one of the Juniors who was not on the team, knocked at the door. She had a letter in her hand and she spoke hurriedly to Louise.
“I am awfully sorry to disturb you,” she said, “but I’ve just had a letter from one of the Fenwick girls, and I thought it might interest you. It’s about the team.”
“Good! Read it to us!” exclaimed half a dozen voices.
“This is the important part,” began Nora as she read:
“‘We have a wonderful team this year and so far we haven’t had a single defeat.’”