“There isn't much chance for you to rise.”
“I don't know why,” said Herbert.
“Then it seems, Herbert,” said Cameron, smiling, “there is not much chance of my welcoming you at Yale.”
“I wish there was.”
“So you will have to be content with serving as my professor here.”
James did not understand this allusion, but privately wondered how Cameron could talk so intimately with a boy in Herbert's low social position.
“I turn off here,” he said. “That is our house.”
“Is it?” said Cameron, indifferently.
“Your friend seems to have a very vain idea of his high position,” said Cameron, when James was out of hearing.
“And a very low idea of mine,” added Herbert.