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Salient: At Victoria University College, Wellington, N. Z. Vol. 24, No. 10. 1961.

Female Tribulations Again

Female Tribulations Again

It was early Winter but still pretty cold, and we strolled back from the Woolstore Hop closely enveloped in each other's arms—made walking difficult, but that was no factor and warmth was. We reached St. Mag's, and for a while sat down on the low brick wall, and listened to the Varsity clock as it jangled its chimes for 1.45, and the sound reverberated from St. Mag's to the Varsity walls oposite. I only had 1.30 leave, but after all it was Capping, and anyway just then nothing seemed very clear, and it didn't matter very much anyway.

I didn't want to leave him, so he said maybe we could sleep in the gardens. I said it'd be cold. No, we'd keep each other warm, he said, there were cosy patches in the gardens—he knew, he said. But I didn't think so, I said. I thought we'd still get cold, and I said no.

For I'm logical (sober or otherwise) and so I said to him. when I went to school, one and one were two, but that was a good long time ago, and things might be different now, I said. And I said that if one is in a certain place, and at a certain time, and if one is feeling certain things for a certain other person, and one is placed in a cerlain situation, well, I said, then I thought that It was possible, I said that one and one, just might conceivably make three, I said; so I said no, I said, good-nite" dear, and he said please, and I still said no, and he said I won't see vou again till next term, and I said no dear, and I walked up the path feeling colder, but it was warm inside and I went upstairs and looked out of Anne's room's window and saw him going, and he looked cold, he looked so cold. I thought, so cold and lonely and I wished we were still out there together keeping each other warm.

—Jancist.