27/36 "What is a Kneipe ?" "Well, it's a sort of bachelor party, my dear, where the students meet to sing and talk and--and smoke, and all that sort of thing, you know." "Oh, well, I hope you will enjoy yourself!" said Mrs.X., who was a nice woman and sensible. "I have often had a curiosity to see one. I may," continued Mr.X.,--"I mean it is possible, that I may be home a little late." "What do you call late ?" asked Mrs.X. "You see these students, they are a wild lot, and when they get together--And then, I believe, a good many toasts are drunk. I don't know how it will affect me. |