‘Certainly,’ said Parkins, the Professor: ‘if you will describe to me whereabouts the site is, I will do my best to give you an idea of the lie of the land when I get back or I could write to you about it, if you would tell me where you are likely to be.’ It was, as you might suppose, a person of antiquarian pursuits who said this, but, since he merely appears in this prologue, there is no need to give his entitlements. ‘Oh, Parkins,’ said his neighbour on the other side, ‘if you are going to Burnstow, I wish you would look at the site of the Templars’ preceptory, and let me know if you think it would be any good to have a dig there in the summer.’ ‘Yes,’ he said ‘my friends have been making me take up golf this term, and I mean to go to the East Coast-in point of fact to Burnstow-(I dare say you know it) for a week or ten days, to improve my game. The Professor was young, neat, and precise in speech.
‘I suppose you will be getting away pretty soon, now Full Term is over, Professor,’ said a person not in the story to the Professor of Ontography, soon after they had sat down next to each other at a feast in the hospitable hall of St James’s College. ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’
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