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At any rate , his father , who was a barrister , must have heard something , because he paid a surprise visit to Oxford . There is something horribly mean about surprise visits , whatever information may be got from them , and for the first time in my life I felt a little sympathy for Dennison . Whether his father thought this visit successful or not I do not know , but he certainly found out a lot in a short time and came to a very definite decision . He called on Dennison at ten o'clock and found him sleeping , he called again at twelve o'clock with the same result ; at one o'clock he discovered him sitting at breakfast in his dressing-gown . Lambert was unfortunate enough to hear some of the interview which followed , and he said that Dennison 's defence was very clever , but that he broke down under cross-examination . `` I have never seen such a man as old Dennison , '' I heard Lambert telling some one in the common-room ; `` he looked like a piece of marble , and when I went in and wanted to bolt he treated me as if I was an office-boy , and said that as he believed I was a particular friend of his son 's it would do me good to stay . The worst of it was that Dennison was n't very well , and was having a pick-me-up with his brekker .