She began to come by in the evenings, and often she was drunk. Are the rich very different from you and me? Judge for yourself. She was drunk and it was my role to sit in the room I shared with Ferdinand and try to work on my sophomore paper. “It’s important that you do this,” Ferdinand told me the second time she was over and they sat in the common room, watching our old Simpsons tape. “You need to be, like, The Scholar. It creates an atmosphere.”