[The reply might come some hours later, but she said she'd tell him, and she will.]

Here's what I remember. I think I last read it a year or two ago.

-Beats the other midshipmen
-Makes Hornblower recite poetry before the others
-Forester calls it an inquisition, I think — twists all kinds of information out of Hornblower

I know there's more, but I don't remember the rest. Any of that ring a bell?