And we'll give you fourteen days." * * * * * Then as Frank went out he saw the three magistrates lean back in conversation.
(III) I find it very hard to explain, even to myself, the extraordinary depression that fell upon Frank during his fourteen days.

He could hardly bear even to speak of it afterwards, and I find in his diary no more than a line or two, and those as bald as possible.

Apparently it was no kind of satisfaction to him to know that the whole thing was entirely his own doing, or that it was the thought of Gertie that had made him, in the first instance, take the tin from the Major.

Yet it was not that there was any sense of guilt, or even of mistake.

One would have thought that from everybody's point of view, and particularly Gertie's, it would be an excellent thing for the Major to go to prison for a bit.