"Yes, indeed," Ethel Blue supported him so earnestly that every one laughed again.
"You see, no one knows about its being Ethel Blue's idea and that would take a lot more explaining or else it would seem that there was no good reason for the president's not acting as showman and introducing her freaks to the audience."
"'Speak for yourself, John!' I'm no freak!" declared James. "I think Helen's the right one to make the introduction, though."
Helen shivered.
"I must say I hate to do it," she said, "but we all agreed when we went into this that we'd do what came up, no matter whether we liked it or not, so here goes Number 1 on the program," and she wrote on her pad, beneath an elaborate
PROGRAM
which she had been drawing and decorating as she talked.
1. Explanatory address. Helen Morton.
"Now, then," queried Ethel Brown, "what next?"
"Music, if there's any one to tootle for the ladies," said Roger.