“Why?”
“Well, I seem to have come just so far and there I stick.”
“How many tests have you still to make?”
“Three or four.”
“Why don’t you work on those during the summer? You’ll have a chance, won’t you?”
“Oh, yes, I think so. I have a lot of required reading, but that won’t take all my spare time, and I did want to make a stride in math. Grad can help me, so I won’t seem such a stupid when I come back in the fall. Miss Dodge told me she was afraid I couldn’t pass up with the class, but that if I chose to study for it I could take another exam. in the fall.”
“Did you know Miss Dodge was not to come back next year?”
“No, I did not. Oh, Clausie, what will we do for a captain of our troop?”
“I don’t know. Miss Dodge said she would see to it that we had a good one.”
“Miss Chesney?”