"You can't help yourself. I am the Intellectual Principle; mine is the Will: mine is the clear head and the authority." "What am I, then?" "You? I don't know. You are me--yourself--without the Intellectual Principle. That is what you are. I must define you by negatives. You cannot argue, or reason, or create, or invent: you remember like an animal from assistance: you behave nicely because you have been trained: you are--in short--you are the Animal Part." "Oh!" He was angry: he did not know what to reply: he was humiliated. "Don't fall into a rage. Go away and amuse yourself. You can do anything you please. Come back, however, in time for Hall." The Animal Part obeyed. He went out leaving the other Part over his books. He spent the morning with other men as industriously disposed as himself. He found a strange lightness of spirits. There was no remonstrating voice within him reproaching him for his laziness, urging him to get up and go to work. Not at all; that voice was silent; he was left quite undisturbed. He talked with these men over tobacco; he played billiards with them; he lay in a chair and looked at a novel. He had luncheon and beer, and more tobacco. He went down the river in the college boat; he had an hour or two of whist before Hall. Then he returned to his room. His other Half looked up, surprised. "Already? The day has flown." "One moment," said Will, "before we go in. You're a serious sort, you know, and I'm one of the--the lighter ornaments of the College, and I sit among them. It would be awkward breaking off all at once. Besides----" "I understand. Continue to sit with them for awhile, and talk as much idiotic stuff as you please. Presently you will find that a change of companions and of conversation has become necessary." Nobody noticed any change; the two in one sat at table and ate like one; they talked like one; they talked frivolously, telling stories like one. After Hall they went back to their chambers. "You can leave me," said the student. "I shall rest for an hour or so. Then I shall go on again." This very remarkable arrangement went on undisturbed for some time. No one suspected it. No one discovered it. It became quite natural for Challice to go out of his room in the morning and to leave himself at work; it became natural to go down to Hall at seven with a mingled recollection of work and amusements. The reproaching voice was silent, the Animal Part was left at peace, and the Intellectual Part went on reading at peace. [Illustration: "WILL MET THE TUTOR."] One evening, however, going across the court at midnight, Will met the tutor. "Challice," he said, "is it wise to burn the candle at both ends? Come--you told me this morning that you were working hard. What do you call this? You cannot serve two masters."