Shanks claims a "BA (Eng Lit) Bombay University (at the Elphinstone College, to be precise)."

Jackie wonders: "You went to a college for elves??"

Silly Jackie. Elphinstone College is a distinguished school housed entirely in single-storey buildings made from elphinstone -- little, tiny rocks which, unlike sandstone and granite, cannot be stacked very many one atop the other.