«All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to the well-regulated mind.» (19)
«As the Head of a women’s college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word ‘compromise’ had been omitted from her vocabulary» (22).
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