"Shakespeare?"
"Yes, sir."
"Uh, huh! Can you tell me the name of the play where there is a fencer?"
"'Hamlet.'"
"'Hamlet'?"
"Yes, sir. I've committed to memory the speech of the ghost."
"Well, this isn't a theater, Mitchell, so you don't need to recite."
"No, sir."
"But now tell me, has your father talked to you?"
"Yes, sir."