"And Cameron has had the great advantage of being right on the spot all the time.
Moreover, he has had his future mapped out for him, while I wasn't assured about my own, and he hasn't been afraid to speak.

Great Scott, I must wait until the night of the graduation ball before I can speak and find out how the land lies for me.

But is Laura coming to that hop ?" Again Dick ran hastily through the letter.

Yet, look as he would, he could find no allusion of Laura's to coming on for the Graduation Hop.
"What an idiot I am!" growled Prescott to himself.

"I'm certain I forgot to ask her, in my last letter.