WORK AND OTHER DISSIPATIONS
… No, I don't think they will dismiss you from college entirely—if this is really the first time.… They have a right to suspend you though.…
If you don't mind, I don't care to hear how it happened—won't interest me a bit. Maybe it was because you wanted to show the gang, like Poler Stacy. I'd hate to think so, especially since it would be worse in your case, because you are popular and prominent already, and, moreover, know that that sort of thing does not endear you to anybody. Maybe it was because you were temporarily insane, like that young lawyer, and wanted to show yourself what it was like; only there would be less excuse for you to act like an idiot because you are a thoroughly healthy, normal person. Or maybe you just plain forgot and abused conviviality, which is too fine a thing to be entrusted to weaklings or brutes. Or maybe you don't know just how you happened to make a dd fool of yourself. At any rate, it's none of my business and I don't want to know. No excuse would cut any ice with me, and what's
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