"Let the spirit appear" shrieks Rama amid the clashing of the cymbals.

The real issue is a clashing between a sense of "what should be" on obvious general grounds and a sense of "what should be" in the particular, derived from the very patent and general "what is" that men receive as a rule far higher pay than women.

To give full play to his bland clashings with Authority he needs to have authority to clash with, and there is none more absolute than that of the masters at an English school.