Q. What is the test of efficiency?
A. The test of efficiency is success.
And so on and so on. It was said that the spectacle of the whole school, boys and girls together, reciting the Efficiency Ritual under the leadership of the Headmaster – they had this ceremony two mornings a week instead of prayers – was most impressive.
Miss Beaver was a prim little woman with a round body, a thin face, a reddish nose, and the gait of a guinea-hen. After twenty years of slave-driving she had attained to an income of four pounds a week and the privilege of ‘living out’ instead of having to put the boarders to bed at nights. She lived in ‘rooms’ – that is, in a bed-sitting room – to which she was sometimes able to invite Dorothy when both of them had a free evening. How Dorothy looked forward to tho
