"I've set out to see this thing through, and I'm goin' to do it.

Only," he muttered, as he entered the downstairs vestibule, "I wish I didn't feel quite so much as if I was stealin' hens' eggs." Miss Dawes herself opened the door in response to his knock.
"Oh, it's you, Cap'n Whittaker," she said.

"Come in, please." Captain Cy entered the schoolroom.

It was empty, save for the teacher and himself and one little girl, who, seated at a desk, was writing busily.

She looked up and blushed a vivid red.