'Oh! it was rumoured you had eloped with a Selwyn man. Somebody saw you going off.'
'With a Selwyn man!' said Lucy with fine scorn. 'As if I should elope with a Selwyn man! If it had been St. Benedict's it would have been different.'
'Or Hall?' suggested Miss Stubbs, who was rumoured to have a cousin at Trinity Hall, or to know a girl who had.
'Ye—es; even Hall would have been better. Who set the ball rolling—Newnham Assurance?'
Lucy was much too angry with Pamela to call her by her name.
'No, it wasn't Assurance. She took the other side. She said if you were going to run away with—with a man, you would have had the self-respect to stop and put your gloves on first.'
WYATT EDGELL.