“All right, but don’t call it a tail, as some rowing man will hear you and have a fit. Let me get clear. Are you slacking, to-day?”
“Yes, and for the next two days. My tripos begins on Monday, and I think that if I do nothing for a day or two I may be able to remember again who the Electric Sophia was.”
“Is she important? She sounds as if she might be the wife of the man who discovered lightning.”
“Don’t confuse me further,” said the Babe. “Where are you off to?”
“Oh, up the river. There’s no cricket to-day.”
“I didn’t know that people who played cricket ever rowed.”
“They don’t for the most part: but I don’t consider that a reason for not doing so if I wish.”
“Are you playing for the ‘Varsity on Monday?”
“They have been polite enough to ask me.”
“And you have very civilly consented. Well, good-bye.”