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"Fess," said Jeremiah Keene, on the night of Commencement Day, "what are you going to do with yourself? You are the most expansive -- nay, sentimental and emotional creature on one side of you, and on the other the most secretive! I've turned myself inside out to you over and over again. You know all my hopes, aspirations, plans -- who doesn't? What have I been digging away at this school of mines for? But you've gone in for everything, distinguished yourself in pretty nearly everything -- and we are none the wiser. In these days you've got to be one thing -- one thing -- there's no chance for any but the specialist, and you are as well aware of that as any one else. So I know, we all know, that you must have made up your mind -- that you know what you are about. It isn't only curiosity that prompts me to ask for your secret -- there is no necessity for maunderings on my part.
I'd like to know; we may not meet again for years -- you go East, I go West -- I've never taken a liberty with you before; forgive me this."