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School. Head-mistress, Mrs. Impact -- ominous name! Second in command, Miss Ouch -- natural sequence! Then Miss Keggs -- also eponymous, as we shall see.
So she grew up -- twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old. In just that order. No twelve, fourteen, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, sixteen irregularity. A precise arithmetical sequence -- forecast of mathematical abilities almost unfeminine.