I say, shall you be out in the playground to-morrow ?" "Yes, unless I get four bad marks before.

I've two against me already." "Oh, don't get any more.

I want to go for a walk." "A walk!" I exclaimed.

"You'll never be allowed!" "But we might slip out just for a few minutes; it's awful never to get out." It _was_ awful; but the risk.

However, I had promised to back him up, and so I said where he went I would go.
"If it was only to climb one tree, or see just one bird on the bushes," he said, almost pathetically.