‘Just as athletics produce a healthy body, ready for anything,’ cried Miss Bradley, in hearty accord.

Gudrun looked at her in silent loathing.

‘Well — ’ rumbled Hermione, ‘I don’t know. To me the pleasure of knowing is so great, so WONDERFUL — nothing has meant so much to me in all life, as certain knowledge — no, I am sure — nothing.’

‘What knowledge, for example, Hermione?’ asked Alexander.

Hermione lifted her face and rumbled —

‘M — m — m — I don’t know � But one thing was the stars, when I really understood something about the stars. One feels so UPLIFTED, so UNBOUNDED �