I know what troubles you have had this term, and how bravely you have been trying to turn over a new leaf.

I'd give anything to be able to help you out of this, but I tell you plainly I don't see how to do it.

If you like, I'll go with you to the doctor, and--" "No, no!" exclaimed Wyndham, wildly, "I can't do that! I can't do that!" "Then," said Riddell, gravely, "I must go to him by myself." Wyndham looked up and tried to speak, and then fairly broke down.
"If the honour of the whole school were not involved--" Wyndham looked up in a startled way.

"The honour of the school?
What has it got to do with my going to--" What strange fatality was there about Riddell's study-door that it always opened at the most inopportune times?
Just as Wyndham began to speak it opened again, and Bloomfield, of all persons, appeared.
"I want to speak to you, Riddell," he said.
The words were uttered before he had noticed that the captain was not alone, or that his visitor was young Wyndham, in a state of great distress--hardly greater than that of Riddell himself.
As soon as he did perceive it he drew back, and said, "I beg your pardon; I didn't know any one was here." "I'll go," said Wyndham, hurriedly, going to the door, and hardly lifting his eyes from the ground as he passed.
Bloomfield could hardly help noticing his strange appearance, or wondering at it.
"Anything wrong with young Wyndham ?" said he, not sorry to have some way of breaking the ice.
"He's in trouble," said the captain.

"Won't you sit down ?" It was a very long time since the head of Parrett's and the captain of the school had met in this polite way.