“And what places you under that necessity now?”
“I do not expect to remain a bachelor always, sir.”
Here a governor chuckled.
“Ha, ha! Hymen comes to the rescue. Wonderful the revolutions he makes in young fellows’ lives.”
The governor had left school fifty-five years ago, and was rather proud to have remembered who Hymen was. The doctor waited with chilling patience till the interruption was over.
“You feel yourself competent to take charge of a house of forty to fifty boys, do you? as well as to conduct a class of seventy?”
“I have thought over the matter, and tried to realise the duties, and think I can succeed.”
“Quite right; I like that. No brag,” said another of the governors, in an aside.
“Your temper is good, is it? you are not likely to fall out with your fellow-masters, are you?”
“Yes, that’s important,” interjected a governor.