Short was to spend the summer at the vicarage, reading hard until the term began, when he was to go up and compete for a minor scholarship; Angleside was to wait until he heard whether he had passed, and was then going abroad to meet his father and to rest from the extreme exertion of mastering the "Apology" and the first books of the "Memorabilia." John drove over to meet the Honourable Cornelius, who was in a terrible state of anxiety and left him no peace on the way asking him again and again to repeat the answers to the questions which had been proposed, reckoning up the ones he had answered wrong and the ones he thought he might have answered right, and coming each time to a different conclusion, finally lighting a huge brierwood pipe and swearing "that it was a beastly shame to subject human beings to such awful torture." John calmed him by saying he fancied Cornelius had "got through"; for John's words were a species of gospel to Cornelius.

By the time they reached the vicarage Angleside felt sanguine of his success.
The vicar was not visible.

It was a strange and unheard of thing--there were visitors in the drawing-room.

This doubtless accounted for the fact that the fly from the Duke's Head was standing on the opposite side of the road.

The two young men went into their study, which was on the ground floor and opened upon the passage which led to the drawing-room from the little hall.