Since nothing, so far, had come to light to show that the persecution had started before the previous October, suspicion rather naturally centred upon the First-Year students. It was when Dr. Baring had reached this point of her exposition that Harriet felt obliged to speak.
‘I am afraid, Warden,’ she said, ‘that I am in a position to rule out the First Year, and in fact the majority of the present students altogether.’
And she proceeded, with some discomfort, to tell the meeting about the two specimens of the anonymous writer’s work that she had discovered at and after the Gaudy.
‘Thank you, Miss Vane,’ said the Warden, when she had finished. ‘I am extremely sorry that you should have had so unpleasant an experience. But your information of course narrows the field a great deal. If the
