Well, if you think it nothing to send her laudatory verses masquerading as acrostics, and to ransack all the libraries for the works of her favourite poets, you must be as green as she is!' he said caustically. She could not help laughing. 'Does he do so? I thought they were his favourites too: he is certainly very well read in them.' 'Pea-goose! So would you be, if you made it your business to study them!