27/38 Only the ideas some of the girls here have, and the way they discuss them--well, it beats me!" "What sort of ideas ?" Roger's handsome brow puckered in the effort to explain. "They don't think anything's _settled_, you know, as we do at home. They think _they've_ got to settle a lot of things that English girls don't trouble about, because they're just told to do 'em, or not to do 'em, by the people that look after them!" "'Everything hatched over again, and hatched different,'" said the General, who was an admirer of George Eliot; "that's what they'd like, eh? They quiet down, like all the rest of the world." Barnes shook his head. |