“Henry has been so overworked lately,” she said, “that he has forgotten how to rest and if you go he will certainly begin to worry about the School, which isn’t his business now. We are dining with the Carters and if I can keep him from working till then perhaps he will go to bed early. We leave tomorrow.”
So the Crawleys and Mrs. Morland stayed on with a few other friends and Philip Winter drew Mr. Birkett into a discussion of certain uses of the gerundive and asked him if he would look at the proofs of his Latin Grammar when they were ready. Mr. Birkett said he would be delighted.
“A good Latin grammar is a permanent source of income if properly handled,” he said. “We still use Lorimer’s, but the School will have to move with the times and I hope we shall use yours, Philip. I mean, I h
