"What in the world made you do it?"
But Amy continued to smile at the table-cloth. She seemed to be intimating
that there was a special folly which transcended mere general folly and
approximated wisdom.
After breakfast she spoke a few words to Carolyn. She had had all night to
think the matter over; she now saw it from a new angle and in a new light.
"You should have seen how he shook himself free from that sail, and all,"
she said. "And while we were swimming in he held his hand under my chin--at
least part of the time. And when we reached the sandbars he put his arm
through mine and helped me over every one." And in this state of mind she
went off to her class.
Cope was received by his own class with a subdued hilarity. His young
people felt that he had shown poor judgment in going out on the water at
all,--for the University, by tacit consent, left the lake pretty well
alone. They thought that, once out, he had shown remarkably inept
seamanship. And they thought that he had chosen a too near and too well-
lighted stage for the exhibition of both. This forenoon the "Eighteenth
Century Novelists" involved Smollett, and with every reference to the water
looks of understanding traveled from student to student: that the class was
of both sexes made the situation no better.
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