“I can’t do that just now. Isn’t it enough for you to know that Dan is to enter the Tait School this fall?”

“Yes, sir; but I’d like to know how you got him to say yes.”

“He won’t tell you.”

“And you won’t, either?”

“Not just now.”

“When will you tell me?”

“Perhaps at Christmas, perhaps next summer, or it may be that you never will know.”

“Why not?”

“That’s another thing you may never know, though I don’t mind telling you that I think you will find out.”

“How? When?”