“Ordinarily I would, and Isabel’s being so sure might be an argument against them if they were bluffing, as Phil says. But you don’t know how they have been working. I haven’t said anything because I knew our girls were giving all the time they really could to it, and they are more experienced in general than most of Isabel’s crew. So, girls, I don’t know how it will turn out, but I think I can tell you in about fifteen or twenty minutes!”
“So can we all.”
“Really, I should not mind if Isabel did beat. We beat them in the field meet and it’s their turn.”
“Why, Cathalina, where is your class spirit?” asked Helen.
“We shall have to deal with you,” said Juliet.
“Oh, Cathalina’s hopeless. She always sees the side of the other party as well as her own,” declared Betty. “Whatever happens, Cathalina adjusts herself in two minutes. You can’t disturb the even tenor of her way for long.”
“Why, Betty, did you get that remark from Father?”
“No, that is my own wise observation. It’s a real comfortable way, Cathalina, if not popular among what my brother calls boosters.”
“You’re a nice old Betty,” said Cathalina to express her appreciation of Betty’s refusal to criticise her, “but I shall ‘root’ for the seniors, for all that.”
“There they come!”