"Have you finished your education?" asked Bessie.
"There wasn't much to finish," thought Tom, but he said, aloud:
"Maybe I'll study a little more."
"Where did you study?" asked the persevering Bessie.
"I've been to Columbia College," said Tom, after a little pause.
So he had been up to the college grounds, but I am afraid he intended Bessie to believe something else.
"Then you must know a great deal," said Bessie. "Do you like Latin and Greek very much?"
"Not very much," said Tom.
"I never went farther than the Latin verbs. They're tiresome, ain't they?"
"I'll bet they are," said Tom, who wouldn't have known a Latin verb from a Greek noun.