“Don't call yourself stupid, do you?”
“No, but I am not as far advanced as most boys of my age. That isn't my fault, though. I never had a chance to go to school much. If I had been to school all my life, as Dawkins has, it would be time to find out whether I am stupid or not.”
“Then you ain't going to do anything about it?”
“Yes, I am.”
“You said you wasn't going to fight him.”
“That wouldn't do any good. But I'm going to study up and see if I can't get ahead of him. Don't you think that will be the best way of showing him that he is mistaken?”
“Yes, capital, but——”
“But you think I can't do it, I suppose,” said Paul.
“You know he is at the head of the class, and you are at the foot.”
“I know that,” said Paul, resolutely. “But wait awhile and see.”