Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?

There was open swimming now until eight-thirty, when women's swimnastics would begin. Margaret stayed for the swimnastics sometimes, sometimes not, depending on her mood.

But while I waited for the test results, I sat in an inner conferencelike room filled with other girls with unwanted pregnancies. We sat in a circle facing each other. At first no one spoke. They also were teenagers.

Alternative form: cawk