"What say we to the pool?" said Stanley.
"What?" said Johnson, amist some revelry.
"'What say we to the pool,' I said"
For some time, Johnson and Stanley had been enjoying the pool at Gregory Hall, where they would strip down to their underthing and languish a bit in the water. This wasn't so much a time for conversation, but a time for working out the aches and daily dues in ones muscles, and providing aid to one another, when directed. It had been Stanley's invention of some time to take a quarter barrel of boiling water from the maid's entrance down to the pool and balance it on the ledge, a device which he thought to patent as Stanley's Hot Tub.
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