"I don't!" cried Lulu with vehemence; "he's too pompous and too—what is it?"
"Fawning," supplied Max. "I'm just certain he has heard that Grandpa Dinsmore and Grandma Elsie are very rich, and I guess he thinks we are their own grandchildren."
"Perhaps it is just as well, if it will make him treat you all the better," remarked Rosie; "therefore I shall not enlighten him. I have formed the same opinion of him that you and Lulu have, Max."
"But don't let us judge him too hastily," said Evelyn. "Thinking ill of him will only make it hard to treat him with the respect we should while we are his pupils."
"Very sage advice, Miss Leland," laughed Rosie. "But seriously, I am sure you are quite right."
"So am I," said Max; "and I, for one, intend to try to behave and study exactly as if he were as worthy of respect as even Grandpa Dinsmore himself."
"I too," said Evelyn; "and as if all the teachers were."
"Very good resolutions," said Rosie; "so I adopt them for myself."
"Well," sighed Lulu, "resolutions don't seem to amount to much with me, but I haven't the least intention of misbehaving or wasting my time and opportunities."
She said it earnestly, really meaning every word of it.