“Have you seen Merrill?”
“He is in his room under orders.”
“Well, what am I to do?”
“Resign, I should say, and at once.”
“I half thought of it, and, in fact, had written a letter to the commandant; but then——”
“What?”
“My father will not let me come home.”
“Try your mother.”
“It will do no good, for the old man runs the house.”
“There is one thing certain.”