Vincent van Gogh Almond Branches in Bloom painting

Calling his attention to the seventh and final task, I observed that no signatures on the Assignment-list itself seemed called for, only on the matriculation- (i.e., ID-) card -- which too there was apparently no need for him to sign, only to inspect.
"Sure, sure," he agreed at once, as if he'd known that fact as well as his own name, but had forgot it for half a second. "Unless You want me to initial it just for form's sake. . ."
Inspecting the card myself as he talked, I saw that Bray had printedWESCAC in the "Father" blank and signed his own name as "Examiner." I borrowed Reginald Hector's borrowed pen, scratched through the nameGeorge I'd signed earlier, and after it, on the same line, printedGILES.
"Keep it, keep it," he said of the pen, and took the card. Instantly he reddened. "What's this?"
I offered the pen to its first owner, who, however, stepped back with a little embarrassed sign.
"Something wrong?" I asked the ex-Chancellor. "Here -- initial it after my title, if you like."
"Isee," he said, drawing the words out as if he'd caught on to a tease