What made her think of it ?' 'As you may have heard, she holds advanced views on social and other matters; and in those on the higher education of women she is very strong, talking a good deal about the physical training of the Greeks, whom she adores, or did.

Every philosopher and man of science who ventilates his theories in the monthly reviews has a devout listener in her; and this subject of the physical development of her sex has had its turn with other things in her mind.

So she had the place built on her very first arrival, according to the latest lights on athletics, and in imitation of those at the new colleges for women.' 'How deuced clever of the girl! She means to live to be a hundred!' VII.
The wet day arrived with all the promptness that might have been expected of it in this land of rains and mists.

The alder bushes behind the gymnasium dripped monotonously leaf upon leaf, added to this being the purl of the shallow stream a little way off, producing a sense of satiety in watery sounds.

Though there was drizzle in the open meads, the rain here in the thicket was comparatively slight, and two men with fishing tackle who stood beneath one of the larger bushes found its boughs a sufficient shelter.
'We may as well walk home again as study nature here, Willy,' said the taller and elder of the twain.