Miss Burd mounted the platform and announced: "Lispeth Scott wishes to speak to you all, and I should like you to know that anything she has to say is said with my entire approval and sanction.

I hope you will listen to her in perfect silence." Then she followed the other mistresses.
All eyes were fixed on Lispeth as she ascended the platform.

With her tall ample figure, earnest blue eyes, light hair, and fair face flushed with the excitement of her task she looked a typical English girl, and made what she hoped was a typical English speech.
"I asked you to come," she began rather shyly, "because I think lately there have been some misunderstandings in the school, and I want, if possible, to put them straight.

There has been a good deal of talk about 'equality,' and some of you say there oughtn't to be prefects.

I wonder exactly what you mean by 'equality ?' Certainly all girls aren't born with equal talents, yet each separate soul is of value to the community and must not go to waste.