The substitute assistant interrupted her.
"Please don't call me that," he blurted involuntarily.

"It--oh, confound it, it isn't my name!" She should have been very much surprised.

He expected her to be.

Instead she answered quite calmly.
"I know it," she said.
"You DO ?" "Yes.

You are 'Russ' Brooks, aren't you ?" Russell Brooks, alias John Brown, dropped his cap again, but did not pick it up.