The superb health, the dash and daring of a school-girl that he had seen but once or twice, had sent him climbing upon a frail ladder of romantic dreams.
Harwood struck his hands together sharply.

If he owed a duty to Marian and her family, not less he was bound to turn Allen's thoughts into safe channels.
"Of course it wouldn't do--that sort of thing, you know, Allen.

I didn't mean to beat you into the dust.

Let's go over to Pop June's and get some oysters.

I don't feel up to our usual boarding-house discussion of Christian Science to-night." At the first opportunity Dan suggested to Bassett, without mentioning Marian's adventure with Allen, that the Whitcomb was no place for her, and that her pursuit of knowledge under his own tutorship was the merest farce; whereupon Bassett sent her back immediately to Miss Waring's..