The impossibility of complying, however, reacted to shut his real ideas and emotions the more inscrutably within him.
"I'm afraid you would not find the girls' boarding-club scheme a good one, Helen," said he.

"You'd find it would work better in theory than in practice." "But it has worked with the other girls!" she cried.
"I think you would be better off here." Helen bravely choked back her disappointment.
"I might live here, but let the Seminary drop, anyway.

That would save a good deal," she begged.

"I'd get quite as much good out of my work outside, and then we'd have all that money besides." "I don't know; I'll see," replied Thorpe.

"The mental discipline of class-room work might be a good thing." He had already thought of this modification himself, but with his characteristic caution, threw cold water on the scheme until he could ascertain definitely whether or not it was practicable.