Some day I shall marry him (oh, it is all arranged!), and we shall live at Carwithiel and be quite happy; for I like him, and he likes people to be happy.
And we shall talk of you.

Being out of the world ourselves, we shall talk of you, and the great things you are going to do, and the great things you are doing.

We shall say to each other, 'It's all very well for the world to be proud of him, but we have the best right, for we grew up with him and know the stories he used to tell us; and when the time came for his going, it was we who waved from the door--" "Honoria--" "But there is one thing you haven't told, and you shall now, if you care to--about your examination and what you did at Oxford." So he sat down beside her on a sand-hill and told her: about the long low-ceiled room in the quadrangle of the Bodleian, the old marbles which lined the walls, the examiner at the blue baize table, and the little deal tables (all scribbled over with names and dates and verses and ribald remarks) at which the candidates wrote; also of the _viva voce_ examination in the antechamber of the Convocation House, He told it all as if it were the great event he honestly felt it to be.
"And the others," said she, "those who were writing around you, and the examiner--how did you feel towards them ?" Taffy stared at her.

"I don't know that I thought much about them." "Didn't you feel as if it was a battle and you wanted to beat them all ?" He broke out laughing.

"Why, the examiner was an old man, as dry as a stick! And I hardly remember what the others were like--except one, a white-headed boy with a pimply face.