"Good heavens! I didn't notice you, and should not have dreamt of coming, if I'd known you were there.

Oh, Vernon, forgive me for setting you such, a bad example." "Yes, I was there, and I was caught." "Poor boy! but never mind; there are such a lot that you can't get much done to you." "It isn't _that_ I care for; I've been flogged before, you know.
But--may I say something ?" "Yes, Vernon, anything you like." "Well, then,--oh, Eric! I am so, so sorry that you did that to Mr.Rose to-night.

All the fellows are praising you up, of course; but I could have cried to see it, and I did.

I wouldn't have minded if it had been anybody but Rose." "But why ?" "Because, Eric, he's been so good, so kind to both of us.

You've often told me about him, you know, at Fairholm, and he's done such, lots of kind things to me.