Stephie rubs that in to her continually.

She calls her 'a daughter of the people'." "Stephanie Radford can be uncommonly snobbish sometimes." Stephanie from the very first had resented Rona's presence at The Woodlands, and since the practical joke which the latter had played upon her she had disliked her heartily.

She lost no opportunity of showing her contempt, and of trying to make Rona seem of small account.

She revived an ancient tradition of the school which made it a breach of etiquette for girls to go into other form-rooms than their own, thus banishing Rona from V B, where she had often been brought in by Ulyth or good-natured Addie to share the fun that went on.

If obliged to take Rona's hand in figure-dancing, she would only give the extreme tips of her fingers, and if forced on any occasion to sit next to her, she would draw away her skirts as if she feared contamination.
"The Woodlands isn't what it used to be," she would assure a select circle of listeners.