I shall not be political, nor educational, nor anything else great." "If you call politics or education great," he said.

"And heaven defend me from political or highly educated women!" "You say that because you know nothing about them," she said sharply.
"Thank you," he replied.

"I have met them quite often enough!" "That was probably some time ago," she said rather heartlessly.

"If you have lived here so long, how can you judge of the changes which go on in the world outside Petershof ?" "If I have lived here so long," he repeated, in the bitterness of his heart.
Bernardine did not notice: she was on a subject which always excited her.
"I don't know so much about the political women," she said, "but I do know about the higher education people.

The writers who rail against the women of this date are really describing the women of ten years ago.
Why, the Girton girl of ten years ago seems a different creation from the Girton girl of to-day.