In a certain way she felt justified in using it; for a red habit was a sort of tradition in the family.
It was on one of these occasions that she had gone with Harold into the churchyard where they had heard the discussion regarding God and the Angels.
* * * * * When Stephen was about sixteen she went for a short visit to Oxford.

She stayed at Somerville with Mrs.Egerton, an old friend of her mother's, who was a professor at the college.

She sent back her maid who had travelled with her, as she knew that the college girls did not have servants of their own.

The visit was prolonged by mutual consent into a duration of some weeks.

Stephen fell in love with the place and the life, and had serious thoughts of joining the college herself.