But we mustn't be too confident." "Jolly lucky we're cut off from the rest of the chaps, isn't it?
It makes us all sit up." "That state of things may end any time, you know," said the master.
"But we must `sit up' all the same." "Oh, but it won't come out till the exams, are over, will it ?" "How do I know ?" Arthur glanced up at his kinsman, and inwardly reflected what a clever chap he was to ask such a question in such a way.
"Oh, all right.

All I meant was, it wouldn't suit our book, would it, to let it out just yet ?" "It's not a question of what suits anyone.

It's a question of what is right.

And if anybody in the house knows anything I don't, he ought to speak, whatever it costs." "There's an artful card," thought Arthur to himself, and added aloud-- "I don't fancy any fellow knows anything you don't, Marky--I mean Mr Railsford.

_I_ don't." "Don't you?
Do you know," said the master, "I have sometimes had an impression you did.