If it did--But it didn't.

At the end of the day no complaint had been made about it, so after that we were satisfied that it was real gold, and dropped the anxiety out of our minds.
There was a question which we wanted to ask Father Peter, and finally we went there the second evening, a little diffidently, after drawing straws, and I asked it as casually as I could, though it did not sound as casual as I wanted, because I didn't know how: "What is the Moral Sense, sir ?" He looked down, surprised, over his great spectacles, and said, "Why, it is the faculty which enables us to distinguish good from evil." It threw some light, but not a glare, and I was a little disappointed, also to some degree embarrassed.

He was waiting for me to go on, so, in default of anything else to say, I asked, "Is it valuable ?" "Valuable?
Heavens! lad, it is the one thing that lifts man above the beasts that perish and makes him heir to immortality!" This did not remind me of anything further to say, so I got out, with the other boys, and we went away with that indefinite sense you have often had of being filled but not fatted.

They wanted me to explain, but I was tired.
We passed out through the parlor, and there was Marget at the spinnet teaching Marie Lueger.

So one of the deserting pupils was back; and an influential one, too; the others would follow.