Veve answered with her name.
“What do you want?” inquired Connie. “Would you like to be a Brownie?”
“Oh, yes, please!”
“Why do you want to be a Brownie?”
“Because Brownies are so dependable,” answered Veve soberly. “Because more than anything in the world, I want to be a Brownie.”
Connie turned to the other girls who were waiting in the candle-lighted room. “Shall we let Veve in?” she asked.
“Yes!” chorused the Brownies.
Veve was bidden to enter.
“Close your eyes,” instructed Connie, leading her to the fairy pool. Placing a cap with a dancing Brownie emblem on Veve’s head, she turned her twice around so that she stood in front of the mirror.
Next she told her to bend down and to repeat the verse which began: