If he refuses to do either I am forced to telephone to the tactical officer in charge." The general's wife was therefore obliged to descend to the parlor with her plebe son.
No other room but the parlor! This prohibition extends even to the dining room.

The cadet may not, under any circumstances, accept an invitation from a friend or relative to take a sociable meal with either.
"Tyrannous" and "needlessly oppressive," are terms frequently applied by outsiders to the rules that hedge in cadets, but there is a good reason behind every regulation.
Two or three minutes later a middle-aged woman came slowly down the staircase, gazing about her.

At last her glance settled, with some bewilderment on Dick and Greg, who were the only two cadets in the corridor.
"Why, I believe you must be Mr.Prescott and Mr.Holmes!" exclaimed Mrs.Bentley, moving forward and holding out both hands.

"Yes; I am certain of it," she added, as Dick and Greg, bowing gracefully from the waistline, smiled goodhumoredly.

"Mercy! But how you boys have grown! I am not sure that it is even proper to call you boys any longer." "If we were boys any longer, Mrs.Bentley, I am sure you would be in doubt," laughed Dick easily.