“Has anything very particular happened?”
“No, sir. Nothing very particular. Only I’ve been next to head in my class for a week.”
“Next to head! Why, I thought you had been at the head of your class for the last three or four months.”
“So I have been until within a week. But, since then, do all I can, Herbert Wellmore keeps his place above me.”
“And this is the reason of your unhappiness?”
“Yes, sir.”
“But do you think it is a just cause of unhappiness?”
“I always feel bad if I am not first in everything, father.”
“Do you think it right to feel so, Henry?”