If you leave Wayne Hall, sooner or later the whole college will hear of it and it won't help you to be popular, either.

It is easy enough to do as you please regardless of whether or not it pleases others, but you are bound to pay for the privilege.

If you don't believe me, just wait and see." A flush mounted to the defiant stranger's cheeks.
"Public opinion is usually a matter of small importance to me," she said, but her tone of lofty indifference was not convincing.

"There is, however, a certain amount of wisdom in what you have just said.

I should not care to appear ridiculous in the eyes of the really important students at Overton.