They could hardly realise what this cruel sentence involved, but they knew it meant that life would hardly be worth living for the next six weeks.
"And," continued Mr Parrett, "I have one more thing to say.

Some of you here are in my house, and every one of you, I see, is in my form in Third School.

You are most of you idle boys, and, as you know, there are plenty in the same Form better behaved and more industrious than yourselves." "Oh yes, sir," said Parson, frankly.
"What I shall do during the remainder of the term is this," said Mr Parrett.

"If I hear of any other case of disturbance between the boys of different houses, in which any one of you are implicated, I intend to punish the entire Form, and stop every boy's play for one day.

It rests with you, therefore, to decide whether such a thing shall take place or not.