No one was there yet, and there was consequently time to look about.

Jim's rooms were nothing very grand, but they were palatial compared with the "Mouse-trap." Cheerful and well-lighted, with a pleasant look-out into the old quadrangle, comfortably furnished, further enlivened with all those adornments in the shape of swords, fencing-sticks, dumb-bells, etcetera, without which no model undergraduate's rooms would be complete.
George could hardly help sighing as his thoughts flew back to his own dingy cell under "H" staircase.
"Lay another plate, Smith," said Jim, addressing his "gyp"; "and now, old man, make yourself comfortable." And then the host, in a business-like way, devoted himself to the mysteries of coffee-making and egg-boiling, in the midst of which occupation Clarke and the other Saint George's man arrived.
George felt very miserable on being introduced and devoutly hoped the fellows would have sufficient to converse about among themselves, without it being needful for him to come under observation.

This reserve, however, he was not destined to maintain for very long.
"Halliday," said Clarke, "were you in chapel this morning ?" "Yes." "Well, did you ever hear the organ so grandly played ?" George blushed deeply, half with pleasure at this genuine compliment, and half with nervousness at the turn the talk was taking.
"And it wasn't the regular organist," said Clarke's friend, "for I saw _him_ downstairs." "No, it's some fellow--plough-boy or stable-boy; or somebody he's got hold of, so I heard.

Whoever he is, he knows how to play." At this point Jim was as red in the face as George, and equally embarrassed.
"Is the fellow at college, do you know ?" asked Clarke's friend.
"I believe so, in fact--" "In fact," broke out Jim, in fear of further awkwardness, "in fact the gentleman you are speaking of is my friend here." If Clarke and his friend had suddenly been confronted by a tribe of wild Indians they could not have been more taken aback than they were at this announcement.

In fact, it was an awkward moment for everybody.