"I won't stay here and allow you to insult me." She sprang toward the door, but Patience, divining her intention, turned the key in the lock and calmly pocketed it.

"Don't be a goose," she advised.

"You are too clever to be so childish.

You are deliberately trying to shut yourself out of all the pleasant part of college by going about with a grievance on your shoulder.

If you weren't so clever I shouldn't take the trouble to say what I think.