“He has a very powerful voice for so small a boy,” remarked the dean. “He is training for a solo-boy, is he not?”
“Yes, sir,” replied Dr. Phillips, “and I think he will be one of the best I have ever had in the choir.”
The ladies were all very much pleased with his clear voice, and asked him many questions about his parents and his home.
“I shall want you both to sing at my ‘At Home’, and also at a concert we are arranging in connection with the missionary society,” said the dean’s daughter. “I hope you are both good boys at school.”
“We try to be so—at least, sometimes we do, ma’am,” said Walter.
“I think, Miss Rivers,” said Dr. Phillips, “they are very good boys, that is, for boys.”
“What did you say your father was?” an elderly lady asked Alfred.
“An engineer, ma’am,” replied Alfred.
