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But to reduce her to a schoolgirl was to be resented on Miss Vincent 's account as well as her own . The High School was very large . It stood at present at the end of a budding branch of Rockquay , where the managers , assisted by the funds advanced by Lord Rotherwood and that great invisible potentate , the head of the marble works , had secured and adapted a suitable house , and a space round it well walled in . The various classes of students did not see much of each other , except those who were day boarders and spent the midday recreation time together . Even those in the same form were only together in school , as the dressing-room of those who dined there was separate from that of the others , and they did not come in and out at the same time . Valetta had thus only really made friends with two or three more Rockstone girls of about her own age besides Kitty Yarley , with whom she went backwards and forwards every day , under the escort provided in turn by the families of the young ladies . Gillian 's studies were for three hours in the week at the High School , and on two afternoons she learnt from the old organist at Rockstone Church .