Had he ever seen Mr.S--, who had been a Fellow there, and Rose's godfather?
'I don't acknowledge him,' said Rose, pouting.

'Other people's godfathers give them mugs and corals.

Mine never gave me anything but a Concordance.' Robert laughed, and proved to their satisfaction that Mr.S-- had been extinct before his day.

But could they ask him any other questions?
'Mrs.Leyburn became quite animated, and, diving into her memory, produced a number of fragmentary reminiscences of her husband's Queen's friends, asking him information about each and all of them.

The young man disentangled all her questions, racked his brains to answer, and showed all through a quick friendliness, a charming deference as of youth to age, which confirmed the liking of the whole party for him.
Then the mention of an associate of Richard Leyburn's youth, who had been one of the Tractarian leaders, led him into talk of Oxford changes and the influences of the present.