"It's so fine, and the geraniums are still so fresh in the park, that you're deceived into thinking it's still summer, yet when you try to play tennis, you find the courts horrible, and you cut up the grass in half an hour.

I'm glad when the leaves all come off, and you know it's autumn, and you look up your hockey jersey, and think what sport you had last winter over 'The Dramatic.' I'm fond enough of cricket, but I'd really rather have winter than summer.

On the whole, there's more going on." "I'm glad Margaret Howell's head of the school," replied Evelyn Richards.

"She's A1 at all the guilds, though I don't think she's much chance of being elected Games Captain." "All the better.

It's quite enough for Margaret to act head.