“They’re rather complicated. Well, they’ll be clear to you by and by. You’ll understand them naturally without my talking them over. What do you say, Mr. Yoshikawa?”
“Yes, they’re pretty complicated; hard to get them cleared up in a jiffy. But they’ll become clear by-the-bye. Will be understood naturally without my explaining them,” Clown echoed Red Shirt.
“If they’re such a bother, I don’t mind not hearing them. I only asked you because you sprang the subject.”
“That’s right. I may seem irresponsible in not concluding the thing I had started. Then this much I’ll tell you. I mean no offense, but you are fresh from school, and teaching is a new experience. And a school is a place where somewhat complicated private circumstances are common and one cannot do everything straight and simple.”
“If can’t get it through straight and simple, how does it go?”
“Well, there you are so straight as that. As I was saying, you’re short of experience....”
“I should be. As I wrote it down in my record-sheet, I’m 23 years and four months.”
“That’s it. So you’d be done by some one in unexpected quarter.”
“I’m not afraid who might do me as long as I’m honest.”
“Certainly not. No need be afraid, but I do say you look sharp; your predecessor was done.”