Privately he had added to May that after so long a season in the sanitarium (Daniel had been there a year), where everything was tuned to a low pitch, it would be difficult and it might be shattering for “the boy” (not now the “Professor,” although Daniel, nearly fifty, was his wife’s senior by twenty years and Dr. Tellenbach’s by ten) to go back at once to the excitements and the intrigues of the university, to what, with finicking humor, the doctor called “the omnium-gatherum of the schoolmaster’s life.”