There were several courts, and there was a gymnasium, where the school assembled for exercise on wet days.

From two flagstaffs on the roof floated the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes respectively.

It was an understood fact that here Britannia and Columbia marched hand in hand with an _entente cordiale_ that recognized no distinctions whatsoever.
Miss Rodgers and Miss Morley, who respectively represented the interests of Britain and America, were tremendous friends.

Miss Rodgers was fair and rather plump and rosy-faced and calm, with a manner that parents described as "motherly," and a leaning towards mathematics as the basis of a sound education.

Miss Morley, on the contrary, was thin and dark and excitable, and taught the English literature and the general knowledge classes, and was rumored--though this no doubt was libel--to dislike mathematics to the extent of not even adequately keeping her own private accounts.