"I'm quite sure you will have no trouble. The children understand that I shall be back in the afternoon. If you want pencils, paper, or anything else, Isidore Cohen will get them for you. For Isidore"--and she laid her hand upon his narrow head--"Isidore is monitor of supplies." Very late that afternoon a disillusioned monitor of supplies fared unostentatiously homeward from Room 18. He had never met candor equal to Miss Bailey's, and he was in the grip of the paralyzing conviction that for as long as he remained within her sphere of influence, honesty would be the only expedient policy. * * * * * Transcriber's note: The following changes have been made to the text: Page 32 (illustration): "healthy or somebody" changed to "healthy for somebody". Page 43: "be the man" changed "by the man". Page 150: "or the hospital ward" changed to "or at the hospital ward". Page 244: "chauffers" changed to "chauffeurs".