"You haven't been looking at this torturing proposition from the right angle--that's all.

Now, listen, while I read it." "Oh, we all know how it runs, Mr.Freeman," protested Page.
"Nevertheless, listen, while I read it." As the first classman read through the proposition that was torturing them he threw an emphasis upon certain words that opened their eyes better as to the meaning.
"Now, it works out this way," continued the first classman, bending over the disk and drawing paper and pencil toward him.

"In the first place." Freeman seemed to these youngsters like a born demonstrator.

Within five minutes he had made the "sticky fly paper" problem so plain to them all that they glanced from one to another in astonishment.
"Why, it does seem easy," confessed Farley.
"It sounds foolish, now," grinned Darrin.

"I'm beginning to feel ashamed of myself." "Mr.Freeman," protested Page, "you've saved us from suicide, or some other gruesome fate." "Then I'll drop in once in a while again," promised the first classman.
"But that will take time from your own studies," remonstrated Darrin generously.
"Not in the least.