“You make your resolutions to suit yourself and I’ll make mine to suit myself,” said Felix defiantly.
“I shall never get drunk,” wrote Peter painstakingly.
“But you never do,” said the Story Girl in astonishment.
“Well, it will be all the easier to keep the resolution,” argued Peter.
“That isn’t fair,” complained Dan. “If we all resolved not to do the things we never do we’d all be on the Roll of Honour.”
“You let Peter alone,” said Felicity severely. “It’s a very good resolution and one everybody ought to make.”
“I shall not be jealous,” wrote the Story Girl.
“But are you?” I asked, surprised.
The Story Girl coloured and nodded. “Of one thing,” she confessed, “but I’m not going to tell what it is.”
“I’m jealous sometimes, too,” confessed Sara Ray, “and so my first resolution will be ‘I shall try not to feel jealous when I hear the other girls in school describing all the sick spells they’ve had.’”