No doubt it is rather dreadful to feel insignificant; but I think it's better than to feel as big and awkward as I did--as if I were sprawled all over Redmond.

That's how I felt--I suppose because I was a good two inches taller than any one else in the crowd.

I wasn't afraid a Soph might walk over me; I was afraid they'd take me for an elephant, or an overgrown sample of a potato-fed Islander." "I suppose the trouble is we can't forgive big Redmond for not being little Queen's," said Anne, gathering about her the shreds of her old cheerful philosophy to cover her nakedness of spirit.

"When we left Queen's we knew everybody and had a place of our own.

I suppose we have been unconsciously expecting to take life up at Redmond just where we left off at Queen's, and now we feel as if the ground had slipped from under our feet.