A few minutes later Hunter dashed in.
"Well done, Caruthers. Hooray!"
"Well done, Caruthers!" "Good old A-K!" "I am so glad!" Everyone seemed pleased.
Just before prayers, as he sat at the top of the day-room table, FitzMorris came over to him. "Jolly good, Caruthers. Well done." His cup was full.
Foster did not get his cap....
The next day as Gordon was walking across the courts in break "the Bull" came up to him.
"Gratters, Caruthers; wasn't your fault you lost. I like a man who can fight uphill. You have got the grit—well done, lad."
"And yet," said Gordon to Mansell, as they passed under the school gate, "you say that man cares only for his house. Why, he only loves his house because it's a part of Fernhurst; and Fernhurst is the passion of his life!"