"Do you know many of the students?" he asked Nan.
"Not one," she replied, "unless you can call Dr. Woods a student. We know a number of Dr. Mann's schoolboys, but you're the first real student we have met. I am glad you haven't let them slash your face."
"There is a law against dueling," Mr. Bingham told her. "But in some way the men manage to avoid it."
"They are very proud of their scars, I am told," remarked Jo.
"Yes, one of the men just out of the hospital told me proudly this morning that he had forty scars."
"Silly creature!" said Mary Lee scornfully.
"I never saw so many colored caps in all my life, but I suppose you don't sport one of those either," said Jo.
"No, I'm not a German, you see, and I don't join any of the societies which are strictly local affairs."
"Do you make friends with many of the German students?" asked Mary Lee; "and are they nice?"