The "boats" were voted a nuisance; and whenever the talk turned on Oxford it was instantly tabooed as "shop." Scarfe sneered to him in private about these two fools, but when with them he "went it" with the rest, and made no protest.
"Percy," said Raby, two or three days after this sort of thing had been going on, "you look wretchedly pale and tired.

Why do you stay out so late every night ?" "Oh," said Percy wearily, "I don't know--we humbug about.

Nothing very bad." "If it makes you ill and wretched, I say it is bad, Percy," said the girl.
"Oh, I don't know.

Scarfe goes in for it, you know." "I don't care a bit who goes in for it.

It's bad." "You don't mean to say you think Scarfe is a bad lot ?" "Don't speak to me of Mr Scarfe.