Don't forget to wear your collar outside your great-coat, or I sha'n't speak to you .-- Yours, till then, H.T." I kept this letter carefully from my mother.

I knew it would only distress her, and suggest all sorts of difficulties.

For, dear soul, it would be so hard to explain to her the exigencies of school form.

What would have become of me without old Tempest?
I should have come utterly to grief, I felt.

My only fear was that he might have forgotten something which it was as important I should be made aware of as the hat, or the six-button lavender gloves, or the tan boots.
I am afraid I must plead guilty to a little duplicity in the matter of purchasing these highly necessary articles of my kit.