But let that slide.

I can get on without you for a day or two." "Have you heard how Mr Courtenay is ?" I asked.
"Yes, ever so much better, young whelp! Sir Francis has been giving his brother a tremendous setting down, I hear; and I think they are going to school or somewhere else at once." That day, as I was wandering about the kitchen-garden after a chat with Ike, who had settled down to his work just as if he belonged to the place, and after I had tried to have a few words with Shock, who puzzled me more than ever, for he always seemed to hate me, and yet he had followed me here, I heard some one shout, "Hi! halt!" I turned and saw Sir Francis beckoning to me, and I went up to him.
"Better?
Yes, of course.

Boys always get better," he said.

"Look here.

Behaved very well yesterday.