NEW COMRADES
The winter had passed imperceptibly and the thaw begun when the
list of examinations was posted at the University, and I suddenly
remembered that I had to return answers to questions in eighteen
subjects on which I had heard lectures delivered, but with regard
to some of which I had taken no notes and made no preparation
whatever. It seems strange that the question "How am I going to
pass?" should never have entered my head, but the truth is that
all that winter I had been in such a state of haze through the
delights of being both grown-up and "comme il faut" that,
whenever the question of the examinations had occurred to me, I
had mentally compared myself with my comrades, and thought to
myself, "They are certain to pass, and as most of them are not
'comme il fau
