The Dean has taken up so much of my time that I've rather lost my interest and activity in affairs.
You go down with Rex, and I'll join you presently." The Dean's desk stood in a wide square bay window which overlooked the driveway.

He had settled down to his morning's portion of labor and was blocking out a curriculum of study for Kit, when he happened to glance up, and beheld the trio passing happily out through the gates.

Certainly they did not realize, nor did he at that moment, that already the leaven of youth was at work in the old shadowy house behind the sentinel pines..