Injured Innocence

(The Editor, "Smad.")

It was with feelings of hurt surprise that I read the contemptible aspersions that were cast upon the conversational flights of a member of Victoria House at the Freshers' Dance, Presuming the account of the low-brow conversation which took place to be correct, the only explanation of it that occurs to me, is that the member of the House in question had become weary of making original remarks in reply to the usual male platitudes, and had resigned herself to being non-committal.

Perhaps it was a humane sense of their conversational unfittedness, even when they were not concentrated on turning corners with-out mishap, that kept so many men in the serried non-dancing ranks massed round the door. If that is the case, thanking them,