He glared now and pulled his beard, but Hamlet fortunately behaved well, and the old young man discovered Jeremy's notepaper within a very short period.
Then suddenly the Canon spoke.
"Dogs should not be inside shops," He said, as though he were condemning someone to death.
"I know," said Jeremy frankly.

"I wanted to tie him up to something and there was nothing to tie him up to." "What did you bring him out for at all ?" said the Canon.
"Because he's got to have exercise," said Jeremy, discovering, to his own delighted surprise, that he was not frightened in the least.
"Oh, has he?
I don't know what people keep dogs for." And then he stamped out of the shop.
Jeremy regarded this in the light of a victory and marched away, his head more in the air than ever.

He should now have hurried home.

The midday chimes had rung out and Jeremy's duties were performed.

But he lingered, listening to the last notes of the chimes, hearing the cries of the Cathedral choir-boys as they moved across the green to the choir-school, watching all the people hurry up and down the street.