“Are you going to stick him in the Eleven?”
“If he’s good enough, and I hope he will be.”
“Of course it’s expected of you.”
“Who expects it?”
“Sandham for one, and Devereux himself for another. Didn’t you see how they stopped to make up to you when they overtook us just now?”
“I don’t know what you mean. Evan’s a friend of mine, and of course I’ve seen a lot of Sandham. They only asked if I was going to get any practice in the holidays.”
“They took good care to let you know they were going to have some. So Evan’s going to stay with Sandham’s people, is he?”
“It was Sandham said that.”
“And they’re going to have a professor down from Lord’s!”
“Well, they might be worse employed.”