What could it have been ?" "Ah, you heard it too, sir," said Mr.Webber, smiling most benignly.
"Hear it?
To be sure I did.

O'Malley and I could not hear ourselves talking with the uproar." "Yes, indeed, it is very provoking; but then, what's to be done?
One can't complain, under the circumstances." "Why, what do you mean ?" said Mooney, anxiously.
"Nothing, sir; nothing.

I'd much rather you'd not ask me; for after all, I'll change my chambers." "But why?
Explain this at once.

I insist upon it." "Can I depend upon the discretion of your young friend ?" said Mr.Webber, gravely.
"Perfectly," said the doctor, now wound up to the greatest anxiety to learn a secret.
"And you'll promise not to mention the thing except among your friends ?" "I do," said the doctor.
"Well, then," said he, in a low and confident whisper, "it's the dean." "The dean!" said Mooney, with a start.

"The dean! Why, how can it be the dean ?" "Too true," said Mr.Webber, making a sign of drinking,--"too true, Doctor.
And then, the moment he is so, he begins smashing the furniture.