I understand he tried it once and gave it up." "But his mother made him, James.

You know Susan.

She was as timid as a house-fly for herself, and I suppose for him." "I asked him," said Rivers, "if he knew any Latin.

He answered me in Latin and told me that at Budapest where he was long at school the boys had to speak Latin." "And the rest, Rivers.

Is he well up in mathematics ?" "No, he finds that difficult.