Frances Trebell. In another year I might have been head-mistress, which commits you to approve of the system for ever.
Lady Davenport. [Shaking her wise head.] I've watched the Education fever take England....
Frances Trebell. If I hadn't stopped teaching things I didn't understand...!
Amy O'Connell. [Not without mischief.] And what was the effect on the pupils?
Lucy Davenport. I can tell you that.
Amy O'Connell. Frances never taught you.
Lucy Davenport. No, I wish she had. But I was at her sort of a school before I went to Newnham. I know.
Frances Trebell. [Very distastefully.] Up-to-date, it was described as.
Lucy Davenport. Well, it was like a merry-go-round at top speed. You felt things wouldn't look a bit like that when you came to a standstill.
Amy O'Connell. And they don't?