“Abner asked Ekko as they met in front of the administration building. “What’s in it?” “Nothing.” said Ekko. “but I figured it would look businesslike, after all, we’re going like to a conference.” Abner looked at him doubtfully and then said: “Well, there won’t be any conference if we don’t get there. Let’s go.” Upstairs Dean Hanbury pulled up some chairs in front of her desk and locked the office safe, adjusting the Venetian blind against the sun: she returned to her desk and began to knit pla...cidly, waiting for the student delegation to arrive. Promptly at half-past two they entered. Judy Ballantine and Abner Selzer first, followed by Ekko, with his dispatch case, which he placed conspicuously on his lap. The dean smiled graciously and continued to knit while the students shot glances at each other, uncertain how to begin, they felt somehow they had been put on the defensive even before the conference had begun. Ekko cleared his throat. “Look here. Miss Hanbury ”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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