I was very well content as I was, and I wasn't going to sham religious to curry favour with the Doctor, or any one else." East stopped speaking, and pegged away more diligently than ever with his pencil.

Tom was ready to cry.

He felt half sorry at first that he had been confirmed himself.

He seemed to have deserted his earliest friend--to have left him by himself at his worst need for those long years.

He got up and went and sat by East, and put his arm over his shoulder.
"Dear old boy," he said, "how careless and selfish I've been.