He had spent more money than he ought to have done, and now at this very moment must ask for a large sum.

And he had brought Gerald up to see the Derby, thereby causing him to be sent away from Cambridge! And through it all there was present to him a feeling that by no words which he could use would he be able to make his father understand how deeply he felt all this.
He could not bring himself to see the Duke that evening, and the next morning he was sent for before he was out of bed.

He found his father at breakfast with the tutor's letter before him.

"Do you know anything about this ?" asked the Duke very calmly.
"Gerald ran up to see the Derby, and in the evening missed the train." "Mr.Harnage tells me that he had been expressly ordered not to go to these races." "I suppose he was, sir." Then there was silence between them for some minutes.

"You might as well sit down and eat your breakfast," said the father.