Mr. Stevens was an old bachelor and not accustomed to young people.
He looked a little helpless and chagrined.
"The election is perfectly regular, Jeanette. I don't understand your prejudice against accepting. However, if you feel as you do, we can try another ballot with Eric and Cecil as the only nominees."
Later Eric Lawton was elected president, Lina Colter vice-president and Cecil Perry secretary and treasurer.
CHAPTER XI
THE REQUEST
On that same evening after dinner Jeanette concluded that she would make her request of her father. Under the circumstances she felt she owed this to herself and to him, not wishing him to learn of her speech of the afternoon from any one else. She never had considered the possibility of his refusal.
Business difficulties he might be undergoing, but none sufficiently serious to interfere with her desire and plan.
Often in the past they had discussed the idea that she and Lina eventually go East to school. Lina intended entering college in another year, but not so clever or bookish as her sister, she only wanted the additional training of boarding school.
In thinking over the matter the only difficulty Jeanette feared was that she might not be permitted to leave home immediately.