The Warden supplied him with a little local history, breaking off to say: “But probably you are not specially interested in all this question of women’s education.” “Is it still a question? It ought not to be. I hope you are not going to ask me whether I approve of women’s doing this and that.” “Why not?” “You should not imply that I have any right either to approve or disapprove.” “I assure you,” said the Warden, “that even in Oxford we still encounter a certain number of people who maintain their right to disapprove.” “And I had hoped I was returning to civilisation.”
