You weren't educated there ?" "No," Joan admitted.

"I went to Rodean at Brighton when I was ten years old, and so escaped it.

Nor were you," she added with a smile, "judging from your accent." "No," answered the other, "I was at Hastings--Miss Gwyn's.

Funny how we seem to have always been near to one another.

Dad wanted me to be a doctor.