"Don't you like to have me here?"
"It's hot. And it is very stupid for you, I should think. Where is Mrs. Sandford?"
"She thinks as you do, that it is stupid."
"You ought not to be here without some one."
"Why not? What cadet was that who called you, Preston?"
"Called me? Nobody called me."
"Yes he did. When you were sitting with me. Who was it?"
"I don't know!" said Preston. "Good-bye. I shall be busy for a day or two."
"Then you cannot go to Fort Putnam this afternoon?"
"Fort Putnam? I should think not. It will be broiling to-day."