You remember the row we had about his giving me an allowance?
He didn't want to, because he never had one, only tips from his governor when the old gentleman was pleased with him.

And he said it was quite enough to send me to such a good and expensive school, and I ought to think of that, and not want more because I had got much.

We'd an awful row, for I thought it was so unfair his making out I was greedy and ungrateful, and I told him so, and I said I was quite game to go to a cheap school if he liked, only wherever I was I did want to be 'like the other fellows.' I begged him to take me away and to let me go somewhere cheap with you; and I said, if the fellows there had no allowances, we could do without.
As I told him, it's not the beastly things that you buy that you care about, only of course you don't like to be the only fellow who can't buy 'em.

So then he came round, and said I should have an allowance, but I must do with a very small one.

So I said, Very well, then I mustn't go in for the games.