A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

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!

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

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

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.