"That sub-Junior and Junior History might just as well be combined," he would say irritably to Miss Ellingwood. "Then they would finish the American History in the sub-Junior year, and a thorough course of General History could be divided between the Junior and the Middle years. The present arrangement is senseless."
One day he asked Sarah to remain after class. The sub-Juniors looked at one another and laughed. By this time, suspicion had spread through the whole school.
"He probably wants to ask her whether you and Ellen study your lessons," whispered Mabel's neighbor.
Sarah was startled by the first question which Professor Minturn addressed to her.
"Are you well?"
"Have you ever been sick?"
"I had the measles and the mumps." This sounded like the questions of the gymnasium director. "And the whooping cough I had, too."
"Do you take regular exercise?"
"Yes, sir."