At intervals he could feel the bed shake, and he knew Diamond was shivering as if he had a chill.
In the morning Diamond was not all right.

He was ill in bed, and it was necessary to call a physician, although he protested against it.

His eyes were in wretched shape, but when the doctor questioned him, he persisted in saying he had injured them by falling downstairs.
Of course he could not appear at chapel or recitations, and he sent in an excuse.
Then Mr.Lovejoy came around to investigate.
Now, Mr.Lovejoy was most mild and lamblike in appearance, and one would have thought never in all his life had he indulged in anything that was not perfectly proper.
But appearances were deceptive in the case of Mr.Lovejoy.When a student at Yale he had made a record, but he had been fortunate, and he was never detected in anything the faculty could not approve.

By those who knew him he was regarded as a terror, and by the faculty he was looked on as one of the most quiet and docile students in college.
When Cyrus Lovejoy became an instructor he did not forget the days when he had been a leader in scrapes of all sorts, and he was not inclined to be prying into the affairs of students under him.

Not only that, but he could be blind to some things he accidentally discovered.
So when Mr.Lovejoy reported that John Diamond's eyes, being naturally weak, were inflamed by too close application to his studies, especially in the evening, no one thought of investigating further.