Please don't feel anything of the kind--I only
wish with all my heart that I could think I could behave as you did
if I had been in your place, and I want to be friends."
"Yes indeed," said Howard, "I think it is awfully good of you to
speak about it. You won't expect me," he added, smiling, "to say
that I wish it had turned out otherwise; but I do hope you will be
happy, with all my heart; and you will know that you will have a
real welcome at Windlow if ever you care to come there."
The young man shook hands in silence with Howard, and went out with
a smile. "Oh, I shall be all right," he said.
Jack sate up late with Howard and treated him to a long grumble.
"I do hope to goodness you will come back to Cambridge," he said.
"You must simply make Maud come. You must use your influence, your
beautiful influence, of which we hear so much. Seriously, I do miss
you here very much, and so does everybody else. Your pupils are in
an awful stew. They say that you got them through the Trip without
boring them, and that Crofts bores them and won't get them through.
This place rather gets on my nerves now. The Dons don't confide in
me, and I don't see things from their angle, as my father says. I
think you somehow managed to keep them reasonable; they are narrow-
minded men, I think."
"This is rather a shower of compliments," said Howard. "But I think
I very likely shall come back. I don't think Maud would mind.
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