You can talk when we're in at supper," said a Fifth-form fellow.
The allusion was a depressing one.

More than once it had crossed our heroes' minds that supper was coming on; but the chances of their "cheeking in" (as they called it) to that part of the day's entertainment were, to say the least, narrow.
At any rate, the allusion made them sad, and they relapsed into silence as the bowlers changed ends, and Pledge prepared to attack from his new base.
There was a sudden uncomfortable silence all round the meadow.
Grandcourt felt that if they could weather the storm a few overs longer they might yet avert the disgrace of a single innings defeat.

Templeton felt, with decided qualms, that unless the change told quickly, it had better not have been made at all.

The eleven stepped in a bit, and watched the ball with anxious faces.

Ponty, alone, with one hand in his pocket, yawned, and looked somewhere else.