"I'm not a betting man, like Stafford, but I have a notion he'll come out on our side." Ainger grunted sceptically, and announced that he had to unpack; whereat his comrades left him.
Few persons at Grandcourt gave the captain of Railsford's house credit for being as honest as he was short-tempered, and as jealous for the honour of his house as he was short-sighted as to the best means of securing it.

And yet Ainger was all this; and when he went to bed that night Railsford himself did not look forward more anxiously to the opening term than did his first lieutenant..