"More likely your misfortune—and misfortunes are not faults, no matter what fools say. Note that. Note also that misfortunes may be overcome.—But, they do not understand you here?"
"No."
"They mock you?—— They do. Why did they mock you to-day?"
"They did not mock me to-day."
"Yesterday?"
"Because I carry those two cans full of water up two-hundred-and-two steps every day."
"Do you mean to say that there are no baths in this college yet?"
"We may have footbaths once a week, if we apply to the infirmarian. There is nothing else. And I like to tub decently."
"No doubt they say that you must be a very unclean person to need so much washing?"