4/18 Of course that's all rot." "Of course. What does he say about it ?" "Oh, he simply laughs at the stories. If a fellow asks him point-blank if they are true he tells him not to let anybody string him. He seems to regard the whole business as a weak sort of joke that some fellow is trying to work." "Without doubt that's what it is, for he's too young to have had such adventures. Besides that, there's no fellow modest enough to deny it if he had had them." "Of course there isn't." In this way that point was settled in their minds, for the time, at least. |