You wouldn't have me break my promise?
If you tell of me I shall be expelled I know I shall! Do help me out this time!" "Poor fellow!" said Riddell, who was not proof against this sort of appeal from any one, least of all from one he loved.
The boy was quick in the energy of his despair to follow up his advantage.
"I'd make it good any other way--any way you like--but don't have me expelled, Riddell.

Think of them all at home, what a state they would be in! I know I deserve it; but can't you get me out of it ?" "If you were to go to the doctor and tell him everything--" began Riddell.
"Oh, that's just what I can't do!" exclaimed Wyndham.

"I'd do it like a shot if it was only myself in it.

I don't know how you found it all out, I'm sure; but I can't go and tell the doctor, even if it was to get me off being expelled." It was no use going on like this.

Riddell was getting unmanned every moment, and Wyndham by these wild appeals was only prolonging the agony.
"Wyndham, old fellow," said the captain, in tones full of sympathy and pity, "if I had dreamt all this was to happen I would never have come to Willoughby at all.