girl Heloise looked at me reproachfully.
“Where have you been all day?” she asked.
“I went to my room after lunch.”
“You weren’t there at five.”
“No. After putting in a spell of work on the good old colleges, I went for a stroll. Fellow must have exercise if he means to keep fit.”
“ Mens sana in corpore sano ,” observed the prof.
“I shouldn’t wonder,” I said cordially.
At this point, when everything was going as sweet as a nut and I was feeling on top of my form, Mrs. Pringle suddenly soaked me on the base of the skull with a sandbag.
Not actually, I don’t mean. No, no. I speak figuratively, as it were.
“Roderick