"You didn't? Then I'm the discoverer. I'm proud of that, too. Very likely you will find a copy of the paper in your mail. Are they paying you well for it?"
"Oh, no, I don't think they pay at all. I don't expect that. I am paid sufficiently by seeing it in print this time. Perhaps—some day—if I keep on—"
"You will be a great writer."
"Oh, never that, but I may be able to write something worth while. I long to."
"And give up teaching? You don't like teaching."
"I don't believe I do very much."
"Yet I hear good accounts of you."
"Really, Berk?"
"Certainly I do. Mr. Willis told me you were very satisfactory, and had broken in your class so they trotted along without a break."
"I think we do get along better," Linda acknowledged a little dubiously, "and I believe the small boys do begin to like me more than they did, at least some of them do."