But I do want to know whether Miss Bremerton thinks Oxford was any _use_--before the war--and is going to be any use after the war?
It's all right now, of course, for the moment, with the Colleges full of cadets and wounded men.

But would you put the old Oxford back if you could ?' He lay on his elbows looking up at her.

Elizabeth's eyes sparkled a little.

She realized that an able man was experimenting on her, putting her through her paces.

She asked what he meant by 'the old Oxford,' and an amusing dialogue sprang up between them as to their respective recollections of the great University--the dons, the lectures, the games, the Eights, 'Commem.' and the like.