Dorian's high school days in the city began that fall, a little late because he had so many things to set right at home; but he soon made up the lost time, for he was a student not afraid of hard work.

He walked back and forth the three miles.

Mrs.Brown offered him a room at her large city residence, but he could not accept it because of his daily home chores.

However, he occasionally called on the Brown's who tried to make him feel as much at home as they did at Greenstreet.
Never before were days so perfect to Dorian, never before had he so enjoyed the fleeting hours.

For the first week or two, he was a little shy, but the meeting each morning with boys and girls of his own age and mingling with them in their studies and their recreations, soon taught him that they were all very much alike, just happy, carefree young people, most of them trying to get an education.