“Dan Richards. Where do you live?”
“Brooklyn.”
“I live away up in the country. I never expected to have a chance to come to this school——”
“Do you like it?” interrupted the boy.
“It must be a wonderful place,” replied Dan quietly. “You and I will both have to keep before us all the time what it means to be students in the Tait School.”
“Yes,” assented Carlton feebly. “Do you know I am glad I have to study with the teachers. I’d get lonesome if I didn’t. You see, I room alone——”
“Study with the teachers?” broke in Dan. “What do you mean?”
“Don’t you know? Why the first-form boys are allowed to do all their work in their rooms, unless they get too low a standing in their exams. Then the fellows in the second form who stand in the first division are allowed to study in their rooms too. All the rest have to study every afternoon and evening in one of the study rooms.”
“I didn’t know about that.”