“Then you ought to be on your best behavior when we do come. I shall expect you now to listen to everything I say, and to answer my silliest questions.”
“Oh, you ought not to be so hard on us.”
“You mean that you find it hard to answer silly questions? How wise you must all grow, living up here together!”
“Perhaps. But the wisdom doesn't come down to the first-year men; and so—”
“Well, why do you stop?”
“Because I was going to say something you might not like.”
“Then I insist on hearing it. Now, I shall not let you off. You were saying that wisdom does not come so low as first-year men; and so—what?”
“And so—and so, they are not wise.”
“Yes, of course; but that was not what you were going to say; and so—”
“And so they are generally agreeable, for wise people are always dull; and so—ladies ought to avoid the dons.”