Good afternoon, gentlemen." Dr.Thorndyke's advice appealed to all who heard it, for medical jurisprudence was a live subject at St.Margaret's and all of us were keenly interested in it.

As a result, we sallied forth in a body to the nearest newsvendor's, and, having each provided himself with a copy of the _Daily Telegraph_, adjourned together to the Common Room to devour the report and thereafter to discuss the bearings of the case, unhampered by those considerations of delicacy that afflicted our more squeamish and scrupulous teacher..