Redwood, to whom I confided some of my answers, thought rather more hopefully of my case, and told me to keep my spirits up.

Tempest said that if he were to cuff me for every discreditable blunder I had made, I should have ear-ache for a month.

Dicky, on the other hand, confessed that he wished he could believe he had done as well as I.
As for the other Philosophers, general discouragement was the order of the day.

It was moved and seconded that Coxhead be kicked for having made "amnis" feminine, and having translated the French "impasse" as "instep." And Trimble was temporarily suspended from the service of the Conversation Club because he had put a decimal dot in the wrong place.
Public feeling ran so high that any departure from the rules of syntax or algebra was regarded as treason against the house, and dealt with accordingly.
On the whole, therefore, we were glad when the time of suspense came to an end.
How matters had gone with the seniors it was even more difficult to surmise than it had been in our case.

The day after the end of their exams., Redwood and Tempest, with Pridgin to cox, rowed twelve miles down stream and back, and returned cheerful and serene, and even jocular.