Bring plenty of pocket-money, and some thick boots for kicking chaps back .-- Yours truly, H.T.

Tempest." This letter both gratified and perturbed me.

It was pleasing to be hailed as one of the inner circle of a fellow like Tempest; but it made me suspect that I should not be taken into the fold at my own valuation, but that of my betters, which in a public school is a very different thing.

The little details, too, about dress and manners rather startled me.

For supposing I had gone up not knowing these things, what mistakes I should have made! Suppose, for instance, I had gone up in a billycock with a round instead of a square top; or suppose I had hailed Tempest without his first speaking to me, what would have become of me?
I trembled to think of it, and was glad to feel I had a friend at court who would see I didn't "shirk form." What made me still more uneasy was the reference to my connection with a girl's school.