three "senior prep" conditions to "work off"--Latin, zoology
and mathematics.

Such intimacies as these were the matter-of-course at Battle
Field. They were usually brief and strenuous. A young man and a
young woman would be seen together constantly, would fall in
love, would come to know each the other thoroughly. Then, with
the mind and character and looks and moods of each fully revealed
to the other, they would drift or fly in opposite directions,
wholly disillusioned. Occasionally they found that they were
really congenial, and either love remained or a cordial
friendship sprang up. The modes of thought, inconceivable to
Europeans or Europeanized Americans, made catastrophe all but
impossible.

It was through the girls that Scarborough got his invitation to
the alcove table. There he came to know Pierson and to like him.
One evening he went into Pierson's rooms--the suite under Olivia
and Pauline's. He had never seen--but had dreamed of--such a
luxurious bachelor interior. Pierson's father had insisted that
his son must go to the college where forty years before he had
split wood and lighted fires and swept corridors to earn two
years of higher education. Pierson's mother, defeated in her
wish that her son should go East to college, had tried to
mitigate the rigors of Battle Field's primitive simplicity by
herself fitting up his quarters. And she made them the
show-rooms of the college.

"Now let's see what can be done for you," said Pierson, with
the superiority of a whole year's experience where Scarborough