"What are you studying in Latin, Roy?" asked Andy.
"Caesar."
"If you wish, I will help you."
"Can you?" asked Roy, joyfully.
"I have been through Caesar, and Virgil, also. When I left the academy I was studying Cicero."
"Roy will be glad of your help, Andy," said his mother. "I did not know you were such a scholar."
"I was getting ready for college, but my father's losses required me to break off."
Andy proved such an efficient helper that Roy found himself at leisure in half an hour.
In the meantime Mrs. Mason asked her brother:
"What do you think of my protege?"