text:  "What Leicester! you're the lady the dean has been hunting about college! Upon my word this is the most absurd piece of masquerading!--what on earth is it all about?" I pitied Leicester he looked such an extraordinary figure in his ambiguous dress and seemed so thoroughly ashamed of himself; so displaying the tops and cords in which I had enacted Hastings I acknowledged my share in the business and gave a brief history of the drama during my management