"Hip! hip! hurrah!"
The whole eight immediately broke into a ringing cheer.
"Welcome, Queen Kathleen," they said—"welcome;" and they held out their hands and clasped the hands of the Irish girl.
"I am glad," said Kathleen.
"What about?" said Clara Sawyer.
"Why, you have crowned me queen yourselves. Now I can do what I like with you all."
"You certainly can," said Susy Hopkins.—"We are devoted to our queen, aren't we, girls?"
"We have fallen in love with her on the spot," said Rosy Myers.
"I never saw any one quite so lovely before as the queen," said Mary Rand.
"It isn't only that she's lovely, she is so genteel," said Susy Hopkins.