Miss Eleanor came up one night, and caught us in the middle of a battle.

O Diggy, she is a trump! Blake asked her next day before us all which boys had been out on the landing, because he meant to punish them; and she laughed, and said: 'I'm sure I can't tell you.

Why, when I saw they were all in their night-shirts, I shut my eyes at once!' Of course it was all an excuse for not giving us away.

She doesn't mind seeing chaps in their night-shirts when they're ill, we all know that; and once or twice when for some reason or other she told us on the quiet that there mustn't be any disturbance that evening, no one ever went crusading-- Acton would have licked them if they had.

Acton's going to propose to Miss Eleanor some day, he told us so, and--" "But what about the bedrooms ?" interrupted Diggory; "have you given up having crusades ?" "Yes, but we have other things instead.