That jet now went out suddenly, leaving us in nearly total darkness.
"It was a Christmas Eve.

Everybody else had gone home for the holidays, and Bubbles was the only boy left in the school--Bubbles and a master whose name I won't mention." "He was the Detention Master, wasn't he ?" inquired Lamb's voice.
"Ah, yes.

There's no harm in telling you that.

Bubbles and the Detention Master were left all alone at Ferriby, Sparrow." "Ye--es," said Sparrow softly, and making two syllables of the word.
"They'd had no hampers sent them, and as they sat round the fire that evening they knew both of them there was no Christmas dinner in the house.

They had neither of them tasted food for some days, and had no money to buy any, and if they had had, the snow was too deep to get anywhere.