Your experience with
the Department should be helpful to me in getting the plan launched."
"Certainly I will. If you don't object, I'll talk with Mr. Dayne about
it, too. He--"
"All right. I don't object. Well, good-night."
Sharlee rose and held out her hand. His expression, as he took and shook
it, suddenly changed.
"I suppose you think I have acquired the habit," he said, with an abrupt
recurrence of his embarrassment, "of coming to you for counsel and
assistance?"
"Well, why shouldn't you?" she answered seriously. "I have had the
opportunity and the time to learn some things--"
"You can't dismiss your kindness so easily as that."
"Oh, I don't think I have been particularly kind."
"Yes, you have. I admit that. You have."
He took the conversation with such painful seriousness that she was glad
to lighten it with a smile.
"If you persist in thinking so, you might feel like rewarding me by
coming to see me soon again."
"Yes, yes! I shall come to see you soon again. Certainly. Of course," he
added hastily, "it is desirable that I should talk with you more at
length about my school.
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