Don't you think that women ought to learn, then ?" "Do you ?" he asked.
"Yes, certainly." "Have you learnt anything ?" "I have taught myself a little and picked up something at the college.
But I have no real knowledge, only a smattering of things." "What do you know--French and German ?" "Yes." "Latin ?" "Yes, I know something of it." "Greek ?" "I can read it fairly, but I am not a Greek scholar." "Mathematics ?" "No, I gave them up.

There is no human nature about mathematics.

They work everything to a fixed conclusion that must result.

Life is not like that; what ought to be a square comes out a right angle, and _x_ always equals an unknown quantity, which is never ascertained till you are dead." "Good gracious!" thought Geoffrey to himself between the strokes of the paddle, "what an extraordinary girl.

A flesh-and-blood blue-stocking, and a lovely one into the bargain.