I asked him." "I don't wonder.

Some of the young fools down there would give him a hot reception for no other reason than that he belongs to Bickers's house." "I don't fancy he's proud of that distinction," said Smedley, laughing.
"But, I say, can't anything be done ?" "Nothing; unless Railsford can do anything." "Railsford asked me to go in and see him.

Come, too, old man." But Railsford had nothing to suggest.

He explained dejectedly the effect of the doctor's sentence.

It meant that his house was out of everything in the playing-fields; and that, as for himself, he was as much excluded as his boys.