"If it had been me they'd let out I'd simply gone off into a dark corner and died." "I'm glad it wasn't you," answered Neil heartily.
"Thunder! So'm I!" The college in general had taken Neil's deflection philosophically after the first day or so of wonderment and dismay.

The trust in Mills was absolute, and if Mills said Fletcher wasn't as good as Gale for left half-back, why, he wasn't; that was all there was about it.

There was one person in college, however, who was not deceived.

Sydney Burr, recollecting Neil's "supposititious case," never doubted that Neil had purposely sacrificed himself for his room-mate.

At first he was inclined to protest to Neil, even to go the length of making Mills cognizant of the real situation; but in the end he kept his own counsel, doubtful of his right to interfere.