Then she suddenly opened a door, and Marjorie found herself in an enormous square room, which contained row upon row of shining oak desks, occupied by what seemed to her hundreds of pupils.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
In front of the rows of desks was one large desk on a small raised platform, reminding Marjorie of an island in the midst of a sea.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
They had altered remarkably little and to both of them, although the roar of the Oxford Street traffic was outside the window, it might have been, easily enough, that a clanging bell would soon summon them back to ink-stained desks and Latin exercises.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole