It's my business to keep order in this room." "Rubbish! Who do you think cares for your rules, you jack-in-office ?" "Will you leave the room ?" "No, of course I won't.

If you want to act 'chucker-out,' you'd better try it on." In desperation Lucas resolved to play his last card.

"Look here, Gull," he said, rising from his seat.

"You know I'm not your match in size or strength, or you wouldn't challenge me to fight; but this I will do: unless you leave the room, I shall go at once and report you to Dr.
Denson." The offender, seeing perhaps that this was no empty threat, evidently considered it the wiser plan not to risk an interview with the head-master.
"Oh, keep your wig on!" he answered, with a scornful laugh.

"I shouldn't like to make you prove yourself a sneak as well as a coward.
I'm going in a minute." The assembly, who for the most part considered the stocks joke very good fun, and were possessed with all the traditional schoolboy hatred for anything in the shape of telling tales, showed their disapproval with a good deal of booing and hissing as Gull sauntered out of the room, and Lucas bent over his accounts with the despairing sense of having lost instead of gained by the encounter.
It soon became evident that the matter was not to be allowed to drop without some show of feeling, for on the following morning the unfortunate official was greeted with jeers and uncomplimentary remarks wherever he went.
Just before tea Diggory and Jack Vance were crossing the quadrangle on their way from the gymnasium to the schoolroom, when they were accosted by Fletcher junior.
"I say," remarked the latter, in rather a knowing manner, "if you want to see a lark, come to the reading-room before 'prep.'" "Why, what's up ?" "Oh, never mind; don't tell any one I told you," and the speaker passed on.
"Shall we go ?" said Diggory.
"We might as well," answered his companion, laughing.