[A Popular Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil]@TWC D-Link bookA Popular Schoolgirl CHAPTER IV 20/21
I shall hold you prefects responsible for controlling the school.
If you hear a great noise, you must go into their form-rooms and stop them.
I can't allow the College to be turned into a bear-garden." "We won't! I'll put them all on their honor to behave, and I'll leave the door of our form-room open so that I can hear what's going on.
Thank you so much, Miss Burd!" And Lispeth departed, fearful lest any other qualifications should be added to temper the joy of the proceedings. Six girls, waiting outside the door to hear the result of the negotiations, waved signals of success to others farther down the corridor, and, in an almost incredibly short space of time, the happy news had spread to the remotest corners of the school. "But how are we hostelites going to manage our share ?" asked Ingred anxiously. "Don't you worry about that," Jess and Francie assured her.
"Ten girls in our form have promised to bring thermos flasks, and if we pool to tea there'll be heaps to go round, and the same with buns and cakes.
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