“I don’t doubt it. History pays even less than chemistry, and the Lord knows—No; I don’t doubt it.”
“Knows what, Steve?”
“Who knows what?”
“The one you suggested.”
“Oh! I guess you caught the inference all right. No need to have put it in the abstract. We professors of the younger set are all in the same boat. We’d all have to go into debt under like circumstances.”
Elice Gleason meditated.
“But Harry’s been a full professor now a long time,” she commented; “two years longer than you.”
“And what difference does that make? He just lives on his salary.”
“Is that so? I never thought of it that way. I don’t think I ever considered the financial side before at all.”
Armstrong looked his approval.