Conversation 16 - Excerpt

Marlon: …Well, I want to hear how it goes tonight.

Eddie: You bet. Reception’s at six-thirty, dinner’s at seven. There’ll be some talking and a tour of the house and some one-on-one. No alcohol, I think. So I should be back here by nine-thirty or ten at the latest. Then I’ll spill all.

M: Hey! I just thought of something! If you join Omega Theta and move into their house, what am I gonna do for a roommate?

E: No, no, you’re stuck with me for a while yet in any case. They don’t have freshman residents, just upper classmen., and not a lot of those. It’s not a big house.

M: How many are staying there anyway?

E: I dunno- about a dozen or so, I think. I think they’ve got five or six bedrooms. Everybody else is in the dorms or off campus….