Who smiled agreeably much of the time. One sensed they both possessed a certain knowledge, but, then again, it could have been faked. Mind you, at one point I slightly flippantly enquired of Jay if he spoke the middle English of Geoffrey Chaucer (as that was his field). He completely got me by then quoting most of the "Nun's Priest's Tale", in the original unfathomable tongue. For a minute, we were all stunned. It had been an astonishing display of arcane skill, but I sensed it was a stunt he'd pulled before.