"Really," she declared in an acid voice, "I never in my whole life—"
"What was your point of order?" Cicily interrupted, blandly.
"Why, well—well—that is, I've forgotten it now. But it was very big!"
The presiding officer's sense of humor ran away with her discretion.
"The chair," she announced gravely, "regrets exceedingly that the member found her point of order too big to raise."
It was Mrs. Delancy who, after her usual fashion, strove to restore peace, as Mrs. Carrington indignantly settled back into her chair:
"Madam Chairman, if this meeting is called to consider the election of new members, I would like to nominate Mrs. McMahon, Mrs. Schmidt and Miss Ferguson."
Ruth now made display of her customary need for information. She turned her large eyes on the presiding officer, and inquired plaintively:
"How do you elect new members?"