It's a big word, all right, just as you said." "Is it architecture or cooking or interpreting or one of those ?" Tom asked.
Hervey glanced at Tom in frank surprise.
"Maybe it's leather work, or machinery, or taxidermy or marksmanship," Tom continued, with no thought further from his mind than that of showing off.
"Guess again," Hervey laughed.
"Then it must be either music or stalking," Tom said, dully.
His companion paused in his steps, contemplating Tom with unconcealed amazement.

"Right-o," he said; "it's stalking.

What are you?
A mind reader ?" "Those are the only ones that have three tests," Tom said.

"So if you have twenty merits and two-thirds of a merit, why, you must be trying for one of those.

Maybe they've changed it since I looked at the handbook." Hervey Willetts stood just where he had stopped, looking at Tom with admiration.