I tell you what, Gilks, you'd better go and apologise and see if you can't get back into the boat.

Who could have believed you'd be such a fool! Go at once, for goodness' sake." Gilks, who saw his own mistake fully as well as his friend, obeyed.

He found Fairbairn in his study with Riddell.

The former seemed not at all surprised to see him.
"Fairbairn," said Gilks, "I hope you'll let me stay in the boat.

I'm sorry I played the fool this morning." "Then you _were_ playing the fool ?" demanded Fairbairn, to whom Riddell had just been confiding that perhaps, after all, there had been some fault in the steering to account for it.
"Yes," said Gilks, sullenly.
"Then," said Fairbairn, hotly, "you may be a fool, but I won't be such a big one as to let you stay in the boat another day!" Gilks glared a moment at the speaker.