colleen

Colleen Mathis, an Independent, was later reinstated by judicial order.

Nothin's asier; you have only to spake out; besides it's your business, bein' the colleen's father.

The novel has no concern with college life, and is far better described by its stage-title, The Colleen Bawn.

But what became of that Irish colleen you used to moon over?

Meeting me she asked me about our passage home on the Colleen Bawn, and I told her of it.

Why, then, you're right, colleen; but it's a job I don't fancy.