At least it has been my way for the last two years since a lady who was staying here gave me the canoe when she went away.

Before that I used to row in a boat--that is, before I went to college." "College?
What college?
Girton ?" "Oh, no, nothing half so grand.

It was a college where you get certificates that you are qualified to be a mistress in a Board school.
I wish it had been Girton." "Do you ?"--you are too good for that, he was going to add, but changed it to--"I think you were as well away.

I don't care about the Girton stamp; those of them whom I have known are so hard." "So much the better for them," she answered.

"I should like to be hard as a stone; a stone cannot feel.