He wished he could make that foolish chap understand that a caning was nothing, after all! All fellows worth their salt got caned at school.

Well, after all, he had to take his chance with the others, but he wished he would not keep looking across at _him_ in that beastly way, as if _he_ had the keeping of his conscience! "Well ?" said the Doctor.
But no one spoke.
"I am sorry," said the Doctor more quietly, "that the boy who did it has not had the courage to own up, but I will give him another chance.

I will take every boy's separate answer, and, after that, the whole school will be kept in the playground until the end of the term, unless the guilty boy will take the punishment on himself." Haggart's face was very anxious as he, too, leant forth to see the fourth-form fellows, but all he could catch a sight of was a smooth, fair head that had drooped very low.
The Doctor, with a disappointed face, turned to the senior class.

"It seems hardly necessary to go through the form," he said.

"I think I can count on my senior boys.