If I'm captain, I'll choose my own team.

If you don't like it, or if the best fifteen men in the school aren't in it, you are welcome to complain.

I hope you will." "It strikes me pretty forcibly our fellows won't fancy being snubbed like this.

It would be a bad job if they showed as much on the day of the match." "It would be a bad job--for them," said the captain.
When Yorke repeated this disagreeable conversation to his friends later on, they pulled long faces.
"I suppose he means they don't intend to play up," said Dalton.
"If that's so," said Fisher major, "why not cut them all out and make up the fifteen of fellows you can depend on ?" "That wouldn't do," said Yorke.

"I expect when the time comes they'll play up all right.