I say, don't let anybody know it was Dig, will you?
He'd get in rather a mess, and he's going to put it on hard this term to make up." Could anything be more hopeless than the task of impressing this simple- minded youth with a sense of his duty and deportment towards the new Master of the Shell?
Railsford gave the attempt up, and the school-bell happily intervened to make a diversion.
"That's for dinner.

It's generally at two, you know; but on opening day it's 4.30," said the boy.

"We shall have to cut, or we shall be gated, I say." "Well, you must show me the way," said Mark.

"I'm ready." "You'll have to wear your cap and gown, though," replied Arthur, "or you'll get in a row." Railsford hastened to rectify the omission, and next moment was standing in the great square beside his lively young pilot, amid a crowd of boys hastening towards the school hall.
"We'd better do a trot," said the boy.
"We shall do it all right, I think," said the master, whose dignity revolted against any motion more rapid than quick walking.

Arthur, trotting at his side and encouraging him from time to time to "put it on," detracted a little from the solemnity of the procession.