"He's been very brave about not being able to have the advantages that are enjoyed by the boys he's grown up with.

I've never heard a word of complaint from him." "About his not being sent to college ?" Alice cried.

"I should think you wouldn't! He didn't even have enough ambition to finish high school!" Mrs.Adams sighed.

"It seemed to me Walter lost his ambition when nearly all the boys he'd grown up with went to Eastern schools to prepare for college, and we couldn't afford to send him.

If only your father would have listened----" Alice interrupted: "What nonsense! Walter hated books and studying, and athletics, too, for that matter.