The prize list had made it appear, to any one who did not know better, that I was a pupil from Miss Steele's, High School, Fallowfield.

Suppose this list should get into the hands of any of the fellows, or that some other new boy should carelessly leave his copy about! I wished I had had more sense than to mention the High School at all.

This came of my chivalrous desire, said I to myself, to give Miss Steele and her principal the benefit of my distinction.

Now I might have to thank them for endless trouble.

I did my best to hope the worst would not happen.
"Fellows never read prize lists of exams, they've not been in for," thought I; "and when they have been in, they never trouble themselves about any one's name but their own.