"Who ever heard of a girl joining a new school just before the holidays?
You are nineteen years old, are you?
I'm a year younger than you--and I have finished my education.

The next big girl in the room is a year younger than me--and she has finished her education.

What can you possibly have left to learn at your age ?" "Everything!" cried the stranger from the West Indies, with an outburst of tears.

"I'm a poor ignorant creature.

Your education ought to have taught you to pity me instead of making fun of me.