“Oh, I wonder you don't love it! But what college were you of?”
“Why, you talk like a graduate. I was of St. Ambrose.”
“St. Ambrose! That is my college!”
“Indeed! I wish we had been in residence at the same time.”
“I mean that we almost lived there at the Commemoration.”
“Have you any relation there, then?”
“No, not a relation, only a distant connexion.”
“May I ask his name?”
“Brown. Did you know him?”
“Yes. We were not in the same set. He was a boating man, I think?”