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To do Gipsy justice , however , she thought far more of the cause she had taken up than of her own popularity . `` Fairness '' was her watchword , and wherever her lot had been cast she would have come forward as the champion of any whom she considered unfairly treated . A girl of decided ability , her knockabout life had in many ways made her old beyond her years , and she had that capacity for organization and power of making others work with her that belong to the born leader . Having constituted herself practically head of the movement , she assumed the further conduct of affairs , and at four o'clock held a small committee meeting with Hetty Hancock , Lennie Chapman , and Meg Gordon , her three self-elected coadjutors . As the result of their consultations they presented themselves next day in the Sixth Form classroom , at the identical moment when Miss Giles had just retired , and the members of the Sixth were still engaged in putting away their books . `` Hello , you kids ! What are you doing here ? ''