"By the way, Daisy was all right when I left her, and sent her love and a--" "Do you hear me, Arthur?
Go to your study." "Oh, all right--but there was a message from the gov.

I was to be sure and give you directly I saw you.

He says I can have a bob a week pocket-money, and you're to give it to me, and he'll owe it to you at the end of the term.

I'd like the first now, please." "Go immediately to your room," shouted Railsford, as near to losing his temper as his future brother-in-law had ever seen him.

"How dare you disobey me ?" "Well, but it was a message from the gov., and--I say, Dig," added he, turning to his friend with a nudge, "you cut when Mark tells you." Dig departed, and Railsford weakly fell in with the arrangement of the junior, and allowed him to remain and deliver the rest of his domestic messages.
"Now, look here, Arthur," said the master, closing the door and facing his unabashed future kinsman, "we must come to an understanding at once.
During term time I forbid you to mention Daisy's name, either to me or anybody else, unless I wish it--" The boy whistled.