“Pleased!” repeated John gloomily. “He wasn’t pleased at all. He told me in polite language that Dwight had lied about me, and insinuated that I’d put him up to it, because I wanted to get something out of my father. He says he had a very high opinion of Dwight when he hired him in the spring, but he sees now that he’s only an ‘amiable futility,’ like all the other tutors I’ve had. Then he ended by saying that when he wanted information about my mental capacity he would ask for it, and that if I couldn’t get along with the allowance we settled on when I came across, I would just have to cut down my expenses.”