The first sensation soon wore off, and by the time that Geary took charge of him and brought him back to Cambridge he was disposed to treat the affair less seriously.

Nevertheless when he got to his room he looked at himself in the mirror a long time, saying to himself over and over again, "I'm drunk--just regularly drunk.

Good Heavens! what _would_ the governor say to _this_ ?" In the morning he was surprised to find that he felt so little ashamed.
Geary and young Haight treated the matter as a huge joke and told him of certain funny things he had said and done and which he had entirely forgotten.

It was impossible for him to take the matter seriously even if he had wished to, and within a few weeks he was drunk again.

He found that he was not an exception; Geary was often drunk with him, fully a third of all the Harvard men he knew were intoxicated at different times.