"I assure you, Miss Reid, I am very human."
"Well, then, why don't you turn the laugh on them?"
"But how?"
"They are expecting you to get into some sort of a scrape, don't you think?"
"They are always expecting that. And," he added, with that droll touch in his voice, "I must say I rarely disappoint them."
"I suspect," she continued, thoughtfully, "that the Dean purposely did not explain that drift fence to you."
"He has established precedents that would justify my thinking so, I'll admit."
"Well, then, why don't you ride cheerfully home and report the progress of your work as though nothing had happened?"
"You mean that you won't tell?" he cried.
She nodded gaily. "I told them this afternoon that it wasn't fair for you to have no one but Stella on your side."