Would it astonish you to hear that till this time yesterday I never knew about it at all ?" "What!" exclaimed Wyndham, incredulously; "you were talking to me about it two or three days before." "So you thought.

You thought when I said it was my duty to report it, and that the honour of the school was involved in it, and all that, that I was talking about that scrape at Beamish's." "Of course you were," said Wyndham.

"What else could you have been talking about?
I confessed it to you myself." "And you couldn't see what the honour of the school had to do with your going to Beamish's, could you ?" asked Riddell.
"Well, no.

Perhaps it has, but I didn't see it at the time." "Of course not," said the captain, "and if I had been thinking of Beamish's I should never have said such a stupid thing." "Why, what _do_ you mean ?" said Wyndham, puzzled.
"Why, this.

In all our talks you never once mentioned Beamish's.