"We're the oldest 'frat' here, and of course"-- he chuckled modestly--"of course we think we're the best.

Do you mean you believe we ought to've sat back and let somebody else start it ?" "Oh, _no_!" she answered, vehemently.

"Nobody ought to have started it! That's the trouble; don't you see?
If nobody had started it none of it might have happened.

The rest mightn't have caught it.

It mightn't have got into their heads.