"The girls' house, Hill Dene. They sleep there; and have the needlework classes, and housewifery, I believe."
"Do they have everything else with the boys?"
"Practically."
"Does it answer?"
"Why not? Girls with brothers and boys with sisters have an advantage over the solitary specimens, everybody knows. This is only extending the principle."
Alwynne giggled suddenly.
"You know that girl he dumped me on to—she was showing me round, and we ran into some boys in the gym. I couldn't make out why, but she jolly well sent them flying."
"Out of hours, I expect."
"But the coolness of it, Cousin Alice! She was a bit of a thing—the boys were half as high again!"
"But not prefects."