"Don't you get bored?"
"It's better than doing nothing."
"But the pictures are so silly as a rule."
"Oh, I like the pictures. 'Sixty Years a Queen'—that was lovely. The girl that did Queen Victoria was just sweet."
To his own surprise Martin did not object to her taste: he would have loathed any other admirer of "Sixty Years a Queen."
"Do you know many people here?" he asked.
"I know some girls I was at school with."
"No men?"
"Not many. I know Mr Carter; Brasenose, isn't he? Do you know him?"
"Only by sight. He's going to be chucked out of the varsity boat."