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Hilary then read the list and with the help of several other girls passed the ballots, long ones on ruled paper.

“Now does any one want to speak for her candidate?” asked Cathalina. Several girls did. Isabel and Virginia were heralded as fine debaters and willing to do anything for the society they were in. The new girls were duly considered, as musical, or literary, or valuable additions in one respect or another. Some of the girls had been dreading to do what they ought to do in reference to one name, but when it was enthusiastically pushed by one or two of the girls, Eloise rose, her cheeks flushed and her dark eyes glowing.

“Madam President, I do hate to say what I feel that I ought to say, and I hope you all know that I haven’t a thing against this girl personally. She is pretty and attractive and a good student, but they tell me that she is a regular trouble-maker and always stirs up things wherever she is. I hope that it isn’t so, but she has had a change of room-mates already, and I have noticed myself that she is not on speaking terms with one or two others.”