Chapter 21
THE ELECTRICIANS "Thou shalt have the air Of freedom. Follow and do me service." - "THE TEMPEST." "Is Agatha in?" asked Dolores Mohun, jumping off her bicycle as she saw Magdalen, on a frosty day the next Christmas vacation, in her garden. "She is doing scientific arithmetic with Thekla; giving me a holiday, in fact! You University maidens quite take the shine out of us poor old teachers." "Ah! if we can give shine we can't give substance. But I want to borrow Nag, if you have no objection." "Borrow her! I am sure it is something she will like." "It is in the way of business, but she will like it all the same. They want me to give a course of lectures on electricity at Bexley to the Institute and the two High Schools, and I particularly want a skilled assistant, whom I can depend u
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