“I guess Dr. Tanner has been waylaid,” he ventured at length.
“He’s usually so punctual, too,” she replied, and then continued reading.
“Do you ever get tired of studying?” he went on, determined to sound her.
“Well, naturally. Don’t you?”
“I certainly do. I suppose if there was another man in the class I wouldn’t mind it so much.”
She glanced quickly up.
“Mind what, Mr. Bard?”
“Well, you see, Miss Freeman, perhaps there’s something else in life besides continual study. I’d like to have somebody to chew the rag with, once in a blue moon.”
She laughed.