Education was an enthusiasm.

Rivalry in scholarship was as greatly a part of that wholesome family life as rivalry in games.

There was always a Socratic "throwing of the ball" going on, both indoors and out.

Miss Royden distinguished herself in the sphere of learning and in the sphere of sports.
At Oxford the last vestiges of her religion, or rather her parents' religion, faded from her mind, without pain of any order, hardly with any consciousness.

She devoted herself wholeheartedly to the schools.