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“She is,” the other admitted. “It’s the same old story—Girl Scouts. Just because she’s twenty-one, she feels that she must rush into a captaincy.”

“But anybody can be a Girl Scout captain—I mean anybody with ordinary intelligence; but it takes an unusual girl to be senior president.”

“Marjorie has no idea of being an ordinary captain—she’ll work until she’s an extraordinary one, just as she does everything else. Still, I think if we get her really elected, she’ll have so much to do that she won’t have time to think about anything else. Girl Scouts will have to be forgotten, until next year.”

Had Lily been with her roommate at that moment, however, she might not have spoken so optimistically. Marjorie was stretched on the couch in her sitting room, in the act of reading the Girl Scouts’ magazine from cover to cover. She was searching eagerly for any notices of troops in need of captains, in the hope of finding a place where her services could be used to real advantage. In her mind’s eye she pictured a very poor troop, whose members could hardly assemble the necessary money to pay their dues, to whom uniforms were out of the question; girls who knew nothing of parties or camping trips; girls who had never had a chance to get away from the ugly slum district and learn the rapture of the woods. How thrilling it would be to open their eyes to beauty, to fill their starved minds with knowledge, to imbue their spirits with the great scout ideal! In comparison with the glory of such leadership, the honor of class presidency seemed insignificant.