Really--" Tempest gave me a glare that knocked all the spirit out of me.

What business had I, it seemed to demand, to meddle in his private affairs?
I felt I had done him a real bad turn by my clumsiness, but had not the wit to avoid making bad worse.
"Yes, sir, I told Marple--" "I purposely refrained from mentioning names, Jones iv.; why can you not do so too ?" "I told him to keep it dark, and got him to give it to me.

I--I knew Tempest hadn't enough money to pay it--and--and--" An exclamation of anger from Tempest cut me short, and I was sent ignominiously back to my place.
"Tempest," said the head master very sternly, "send me in a list of all you owe before you go to bed to-night, and understand that, unless all is paid by Friday when we break up, you will not be allowed to return to Low Heath after the holidays.

You must cease in any case to retain the headship of the house, even for the few days of the term that remain.
You, I understand.

Crofter, come next in form order; you will act as head boy in the meantime." In the midst of my anguish I could see the look of meek resignation on Crofter's face, and that of quiet satisfaction on Mr Jarman's.