my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.