It was fine being clever at school - at any rate if you were at a girls' school, as I was - but being clever outside, when there were boys around, made you a social leper. If anyone wanted to do real damage they would call you a swot - no boy would ever go out with a swot. So that was the first problem - how to be clever at school and stupid outside - which in turn was part of the larger problem that you were expected to behave differently with boys than you did with girls. Boys were the enemy but they were also the goal. You had to catch one eventually or you risked being a spinster like your teachers, and no one wanted that.

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