I have been written to several times by the principal, who is an old friend of mine.

Can't the matter be arranged in some way so that I shall not hear any more about it?
I have no possible method of replying in a manner that will satisfy the principal." "Tell him to write to me, doctor; tell him to write to me.

He has no business to put such affairs before anybody else.

He will get his money.

If he didn't believe it, he wouldn't have taken the children in the first place.