Hurriedly leaving the bathroom, Jo Ann lingered outside the office of the dean of boys, and sure enough, a few minutes later, Marilyn Kase, a girl who had been left back in her senior year the previous year, came smilingly out of the office. She was a pretty-enough girl, and it was well known she liked fooling around with some college boys, so it wasn't as if the girl was making some kind of big sacrifice. Heck! In all probability, Marilyn was getting the better of the deal of the way around.

Jo Ann was in Dr. Joseph's elementary English class, it being her first year in high school. She knew Dr. Joseph had a free period after the class he taught with her as a pupil, and she decided that would be the best time to talk to him. It was her last class of the day, Monday.

Somehow she managed to get through the other classes, though more than a little impatient, and she was even more impatient as she sat through Dr. Joseph's class. Because of her imagination, she was one of his better students, especially when it came to literature.

When class was over, she noticed the dean, as always, lingered behind to clean up his desk. She waited until all the other students were out of the classroom and then walked over to him.

"Dr. Joseph?" she said, looking up at him with those big blue innocent-looking eyes.

He smiled at her, nodding, and said, "Jo Ann?"

"I was wondering if we might talk privately for a moment."

"Certainly," he nodded. "We're alone. What's on your mind."

"No, I mean really privately," she insisted.

"Oh?" he asked, raising his eyebrows. "Then he teasingly whispered in a conspiratorial voice, "Would you prefer to come to the office of the dean of boys?"

"No, sir," she replied, shaking her head. "That isn't private enough."

"Come now," he smiled in his adultly superior way. "That room has been soundproofed."

"Not completely, doctor," she insisted.

"Oh?"