Charlie grinned as it was exactly as he had thought. "I knew you'd have something to do with that campus… By the way, which year were you studying there?"

Vera thought about it for a long while and murmured uncertainly, "It's been quite a while, so I don't really remember… But the first time I was there, I left North America after the Civil War broke out."

Pausing, she then added gingerly, "So, probably 1854? A year around that."

Charlie cleared his throat, pursing his lips awkwardly. "Well,