I am very glad I did not see Louis Grayle when I was a girl of sixteen." Again she paused a moment, and resumed: "Louis Grayle was the only son of a usurer, infamous for the rapacity with which he had acquired enormous wealth.

Old Grayle desired to rear his heir as a gentleman; sent him to Eton.

Boys are always aristocratic; his birth was soon thrown in his teeth; he was fierce; he struck boys bigger than himself,--fought till he was half killed.

My father was at school with him; described him as a tiger-whelp.

One day he--still a fag--struck a sixth-form boy.
Sixth-form boys do not fight fags; they punish them.