"Some great writers say that our schooling is simply to train the mind to work, fitting it, so to speak, with necessary tools like a well-equipped mechanic."
"But if the tools are never utilized, what good are they merely to lie and rust?"
"Who can affirm positively that they are never utilized? Even the shallowest boarding-school Miss may carry herself more gracefully in society than one of your usefulest women—Mrs. Blake, for instance."
"How do you know anything about Mrs. Blake?" he asked abruptly.
"I met her on the train when I came here and she talked some time with me."
"It is not usual for persons in your position to permit such liberties."
"I thought in America all were reckoned equal."
"You are not an American."
"Shall I return then to Europe? I could always travel first-class, and so be safe from vulgar intrusion."
"Until your majority your father decided that your home was to be here after you left school."