CHOOSING A WEDDING PRESENT 157 



I have thought it just possible that dessert knives and forks 

 may not be among the presents, and as I found a really good 

 silver set in a box, I have exchanged the salts for them, with the 

 understanding that they are to be changed again if unsuccessful. 

 I shall bring them with me, and can take them back if necessary. I 

 am sorry about the salts . They are very perfect ones . But dessert 

 things are, I suppose, about as useful. The salver is the next 

 thing to fall back on. It is a very fine one, but not of a good 

 size, being a good deal larger than the ordinary small ones, and 

 yet not really a large-sized one. 



I shall have to go back on Thursday, in fact am stretching a 

 point in coming away before one o'clock to-morrow. 



We have got on much better this term in the way of baffling 

 the Dons, but they will too surely encompass us in their toils 

 at the end of the term, when they are going to examine us in half 

 our work for Moderations. 



How I got leave to go to the wedding may be told in 

 another chapter. 



