She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She saw it then, the distant derrick of the wildcat -- a test well in unexplored country.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.

She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me and wouldn't let me go.

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

She went into the living room and turned on three lamps, then back into the kitchen where she turned on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn, illuminating the driveway.

She then went over them thoroughly giving each a strenuous test in showmanship.

She was then trained on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking cart once around the half-mile track and hoppled again.

She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful ).

She then described her experience as one in which she first had difficulty accepting for herself a state of being in which she relinquished control.

She retreated by leaving the room when we suggested that our meeting might well terminate right then and there.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

She was Mary Lou Brew then, wide-eyed, but not naive.

She worked as a domestic, first in Newport for a year, and then in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for another year.

She had assumed before then that one day he would ask her to marry him.

She was thirty-one years old then.

She walked restlessly across the room, then back to the windows.

She smoothed the skirt, sat down, then stood up and went back to the windows.

She made a face at him and then she laughed.

She threw back a cushion over one of the seats, unlocked a padlock on the chest beneath it, then presently straightened, holding a long knife and a wicked looking spear gun in her hand.

She took postgraduate work at the University of Grenoble in France and then returned to London to work on market research with an advertising firm.

She attended the Girls ' Latin School of Chicago ( describing herself as an average student ), graduated in 1939, and later attended Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in English and drama and graduated in 1943.

She majored in folklore and mythology at Brown University, and has a master's degree in religious studies.

She attended the private girls ' school Brearley School in New York City and majored in music at Wellesley College.

She majored in Theater Arts and Education.

She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in history.

" She majored in engineering at Berkeley before switching to English.

She majored in biology.

She majored in theater at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and later studied at the Yale School of Drama for her graduate degree and was a part of its theater company.

She majored in independent studies, which included Philosophy, Natural History, and Physics.

She graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech.

She then attended Hunter College and double majored in history and drama.

She received a scholarship to attend Vassar College where she majored in history.

She majored in philosophy.

She later attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, where she majored in chemistry.

She first traveled to France as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, where she majored in French Cultural Studies, and immediately was drawn to the food and market culture around her.

She majored in theater at Wesleyan University, worked in summer stock productions during vacations, and graduated in 1978.

She attended Malone University and Ashland University, where she majored in radio / television production, programming and performance and minored in political science.

She majored in English at the University of Delaware.

She majored in Victorian Studies at Vassar College.

She attended Sarah Lawrence College and majored in philosophy and art.

She majored in Economics at the Fergusson College, Pune.

She later attended Yale University where, as a student in Jonathan Edwards College, she majored in history and earned her bachelor's degree in 1977.

She majored in dance at Cal State Long Beach but left after one year to devote her time to work and theater.

She double majored in mathematics and music performance.