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"'If it weren't so late and everything,' she said, 'and if I hadn't decided like a fool to go out for honors, I think I'd drop English. I don't know.' She tipped her ashes. 'I'm just so sick of pedants and conceited little tearer-downers I could scream.' She looked at Lane. 'I'm sorry. I'll stop. I give you my word. ... It's just that if I'd had any guts at all, I wouldn't have gone back to college at all this year.'"