"Good enough; glad to have you. I'm going to run out to college in the afternoon to get some things from my trunk. Ever been out there?"
I shook my head.
"Maybe it'll interest you," he said. "I suppose you'll go there when you're ready, eh?"
"Might as well go to one as another, I guess," said I.
"Perhaps; but I'd like you to go to mine," he answered, kind of gravely. "I think it's a little better than the others, you see."
"I suppose you won't be there," I said, flicking Nell's ear with my crop.
"I'm not so sure," he said. "I'm trying for an instructorship. I get my Ph. D. next year. Then I want to go to Germany for a year to study. You're helping to pay for that," he said with a smile.
"I am?"
"Yes; the money I get for your tutoring is to go for that."
"Oh," I said. "Then—then you're coming back to college?"