They even scored freely, and the longer they held together the harder it was to part them.

The reviving hopes of the Rockshire partisans gradually died out before this awkward combination, and Game and Ashley and Tipper, as they sat and watched this spirited performance by the two schoolhouse boys, felt their triumph for the school utterly swamped in the still more signal victory which the despised house was achieving over them.
The score, amid terrific cheering, went up to fifty-two before a separation could be effected.

Then Coates was caught at long-leg, and retired, covered with glory, in favour of Tipper.
Alas for Parrett's! Tipper, in whom their forlorn hopes rested, was run out during his first over, while attempting to snatch a bye! It was an anxious moment while Bloomfield was deciding whom next to send in.

There was still thirty runs to make, but unless he took care the whole innings might be muddled away in the getting of them.
"You go in, Fairbairn," said the captain.
The Parretts felt their fate to be sealed hopelessly.

Had Game been sent in he might still have done something for Parrett's, but now his chance might never come.
It did not come.