It was up to him to make good with Latin.

Otherwise his father would write to Josh, as he threatened, and there'd be no more football.
If he could get through the next month, by which time the football season would be at an end, it would be all right.

After that he could give more time to lessons.

He might, too, he told himself, give up those swimming lessons.

But they came at an hour when it was terribly hard to get a fellow's mind down to study.