it's all so mean! It's just a question of fighting on both sides — and those great louts — — ”

She spoke with difficulty and with increased bitterness. She had evidently suffered. Her soul was raw with ignominy. Ursula suffered in response.

“But why is it so horrid?” she asked, helplessly.

“You can't do anything,” said Miss Schofield. “He's against you on one side and he sets the children against you on the other. The children are simply awful. You've got to make them do everything. Everything, everything has got to come out of you. Whatever they learn, you've got to force it into them — and that's how it is.”

Ursula felt her heart fail inside her.