I fear you must make an apology to Mrs.Tootle, and then perhaps the matter can be allowed to blow over." "I think not," replied Waymark, whose mind was evidently made up.

There was a look of recklessness on his face which one could at any time have detected lurking beneath the hard self-control which usually marked him.

"I don't feel disposed to apologise, and I am tired of my position here.

I must give it up." Dr.Tootle was annoyed.

It would not be easy to get another teacher of the kind at so cheap a rate.
"Come, you don't mean this," he said.