'Homer's _Iliad_ and _Plato_,--I told mamma you were intense--Hallam's _Middle Ages_ and Macaulay's _History of England_. I had no idea you had monarchical tendencies. I must take you to our little chapel, and show you the communion service that belonged to Charles the Second, or perhaps it was one of the Georges, I'm not very clear on that point. My dear Paul, you're delicious! To think of anybody voluntarily undertaking to scrape acquaintance with all these dry-as-dust worthies, and in summertime!'