You remember what old Wyndham said the night before he left.

As long as the fellows think first of the school and then of themselves Willoughby will be all right.
Depend upon it he was right.

We cheered him loud enough then, why not take his advice still ?" (Loud cheers.) This spirited address roused the applause of all the better-minded section, whose cheers were not wholly unmingled with self-reproach.
Bloomfield himself, it was plain, felt its force, and as to the more vehement members of Parrett's, it considerably damped their ardour.
"Old man," said Fairbairn that evening to his friend the captain, "you struck a really good blow for the school this afternoon.

I don't know how you managed to pitch on just the right thing to say, as you did.
Things will come all right, take my word for it.

They're beginning already." Alas, there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, as Willoughby had yet to discover..