"After lights are out?"
"Supposed to be. Explosions on the area coming from nowhere and nothing; and post dogs, painted to admiration."
"But, Magnus!"
"What, my lady?"
"You do not do such things?"
"I drank the chocolate—should have got skinned for it, too, only I stood behind something when Towser came in. And I looked at the dog. And I did not go out of my wits with astonishment at the explosions. Queer, too; for when you get together a bell button, a match, a white feather, a little powder, and a second classman, they make more noise than you would suppose possible."
"I thought they kept such watch of you," Cherry said. "We have wasted a great deal of sympathy."
"No you haven't, and yes, they do; that's the fun. Some of the men will tell you that breaking regulations is all the fun they have."
"Not you, Magnus?"